The Tree Where Isaac Newton Discovered Gravity Is Still Alive!!!!

Mar 17, 2017   Ian Harvey The English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, Isaac Newton was born in 1664 according to the old calendar, and as many would say, he is the father of gravity. Newton discovered gravity with a little help from an apple tree in his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Woolsthorpe Manor, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. This house was the birthplace and the family home of Sir Isaac Newton.  Photo Credit The apple tree first put down roots around 400 years ago. It has been known for at least 240 years as the ‘gravity tree’ and it is shown to visitors as Isaac Newton’s apple tree, the tree from which an apple fell, making him wonder why apples always fall straight down to the ground. He began to ask himself why everything always fell down, not sideways, or upwards, and came to the conclusion that there must be a power (today we call it force), that draws them. ‘How far would that