Memorandum of a conversation with Newton in August 1726
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1983-04-29
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ Pr
- Volume / pages
- Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
- Retrieved
- Feb 8, 2012
- ISBN
- 3ngEugMMa9
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The Earliest Account of Newton and the Apple
In the year 1666 he retired again from Cambridge... to his mother in Lincolnshire & whilst he was musing in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (wch brought an apple from the tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from the earth but that this power must extend much farther…