From the very tree where an apple once inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity to the Bodhi tree under which ...

Cambridge University Botanic Garden has lost its "Newton's apple tree" to Storm Eunice. Garden curator Dr Samuel Brockington said the tree was planted in 1954 and had stood at the Brookside ...

Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired his revolutionary theories about gravity. Today, seeds from that very same apple tree have been collected and ...

Five cuttings have been gifted to the nearest university to the scientist's home. Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree is set to be "cloned" in a bid to inspire students to think like the pioneering ...

The most detailed is that of Stukeley, not published in full until 1936. On the 15 April 1726 he had dined with Newton in Kensington. After dinner, he reported: The weather being warm, we went into ...

He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts, when an apple fell from a tree. And all at once, Newton realised that the force of gravity pulling the apple down to the ...

A sapling of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree has been planted ... and we hope to take care of it so that they can sit under the apple tree and come up with wonderful things, such as choosing a ...