Apple does not fall on the head of Isaac Newton, but it fell close Bashny.Net

One of the most popular legends of great men is a legend of the fallen on the head of Newton's apple. Sweet, naive and a children's story explains epiphany, after which the genius discovered why objects fall to the ground. The story is so simple that seemingly can not be true.

Anyway, the legend is partly true - Newton in his biography mentioned that he first became interested in the force of gravity when he saw an apple fall to the ground. There are reliable records in which even the date of the fall of wonderful fruit: it happened in 1666, the year when Newton escaped the plague in Cambridge. He sat on the ground in the garden of his mother and thought, and it seemed to him that the force that influenced the fall of an apple, can be applied to the Moon and other celestial bodies. Then he decided to find out whether any force, able to explain everything.

The modern version of the story somewhat embellished - the head of Newton's apple did not fall. However, it is an apple indirectly led to his interest and follow-up, so basically is the story - the truth.

via factroom.ru