How to think like a Legend by Rahul Soni

Author:Rahul Soni [Soni, Rahul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-22T22:00:00+00:00

Isaac Newton – The Observer

[5]One of the most famous anecdotes in the history of science is that young Isaac Newton is sitting in his garden when an apple falls on his head and, in a stroke of insight, he discovers or suddenly comes up with his theory of gravity.

Buthistorians point one of Newton's younger contemporaries, an antiquarian and proto archaeologist called William Stukeley, who wrote the first biography of Britain's greatest scientist, entitled Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life.

Stukeley was also born in Lincolnshire and used this connection to befriend the Newton. Stukeley used to meet him regularly as fellows of the Royal Society and talked together.

On one occasion in 1726, Stukeley and Newton spent the evening dining in London. Newton narrated apple story to Stukeley, who described it as such:

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