From Newton's apple tree to Buddha's Bodhi tree: Iconic trees that still exist
From the very tree where an apple once inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity to the Bodhi tree under which ...
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden's 'Newton's apple tree' falls in storm
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 ...
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Newton’s apple seeds: celebrating international science centre day at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre
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 ...
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Argentine scientists plant sapling of Newton's tree to celebrate Researcher's Day
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 ...
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Falling Apple Story (Anecdote)
On the 15 April 1726 he had dined with Newton in Kensington. After dinner, he reported: The weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea, under shade of some apple trees, only he and ...
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Cambridge University artist makes ink from Sir Isaac Newton tree
An artist has made ink from a treasured and iconic apple tree that was blown down by Storm Eunice last year. The tree at Cambridge University Botanic Garden was a scion - a descendent - of the ...
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Isaac Newton and the story of the apple
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 ...