Why did an apple fell on the newton 's head instead on an axe?
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Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation.
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But,There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head
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Growing in a courtyard garden in the Physics Department here in the University of York we have a grafted cutting from an ancient apple tree which still survives in Newton's garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, his birthplace in Lincolnshire. This is the tree from which it is reputed that Newton saw an apple fall in the late summer of 1666 and which caused him to speculate upon the nature of gravitation. Our tree was given to us by Kew Gardens in 1976.
Newton's Apple Tree growing in the courtyard at the Physics Department, University of York.
The account of Isaac Newton's discovering the principle of universal gravitation by observing the fall of an apple is very well known and usually dismissed as apocryphal. However little can be further from the truth for Newton gave this account of his discovery to several acquaintances which include Voltaire (French philosopher and essayist), John Conduitt (his assistant at the Royal Mint) Catherine Barton (his niece) William Stewkeley (friend and antiquarian), Christopher Dawson (a student at Cambridge) amongst others. The first written account appears in notes on Newton's life collected by John Conduitt in 1726 the year of Newton's death. It states that;
Notes on Newtons life collected by John Conduitt in 1726
he first thought of his system of gravitation which he hit upon by observing an apple fall from a tree,
The incident occurring in the late summer of 1666.
In other accounts it is stated that Newton was sitting in his garden at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham in Lincolnshire when the incident occurred.
The first account of their being a specific tree in his garden from which Newton saw the apple fall appears in the book ‘A History of the Town and Soak of Grantham’ by Edmund Turnor FRS (1806) in which there appears the footnote on p160:
The tree is still remaining and is showed to strangers.
His brother the, Rev. Charles Turnor, drew the accompanying picture of the tree in 1820 showing its position with respect to the manor house.
Charles Turnor drawing of the apple tree showing its position with respect to the manor house
Although Newton did not specify from which tree he observed the apple fall it turned out that it was the only apple tree growing in his garden and thus it selected itself.