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No because there is no proof exists that the apple truly landed on Newton's head, but his observation led him to wonder why apples always fall downward rather than upward or laterally. This thought eventually led him to formulate his law of universal gravitation.

reference: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head

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According to the information I have gathered, there is no proof that the fruit truly landed on Newton's head, but his observation led him to wonder why apples always fall downward rather than upward or sideways, and eventually led him to formulate his law of universal gravitation.

Reference: https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head

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No, the story of an apple landing on Isaac Newton's head and it causing him to come up with his law of universal gravitation is false as their is no evidence of this event actually occurring.
https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head#:~:text=There%27s%20no%20evidence%20to%20suggest,his%20law%20of%20universal%20gravitation.

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the "Principia," which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," published in 1752. According to Stukeley, "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind.... occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood."

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.

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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.

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There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. (https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head)

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the "Principia," which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," published in 1752. According to Stukeley, "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind.... occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood."

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.

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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.

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Based on history.com, there is no such concrete evidence that the apple fell on Isaac Newtons head. But as he noticed how the apple fell from the tree, he was curious why it fell downward and not into sideways. In which helped him to gather more information for his law of universal gravitation.

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The story that a falling apple that landed on Isaac Newton's head is merely a story as it does not have any evidence. However, the observation made by Isaac Newton of a falling apple from a tree is a more probable narrative. The saying that it fell on top of his head may very well be a metaphor that he is struck by an idea and one related to gravity at that.

https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the "Principia," which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," published in 1752. According to Stukeley, "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind.... occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood."

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.

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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.

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for me the story was true because if the apple didn't fell on newton's head he would not formulated the gravitational theory. Newton's discovery led him to wonder why apples always fall downward rather than upward or sideways, and it eventually prompted him to formulate his law of universal gravitation.

Reference:
https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head#:~:text=There's%20no%20evidence%20to%20suggest,his%20law%20of%20universal%20gravitation.

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the "Principia," which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," published in 1752. According to Stukeley, "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind.... occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood."

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.

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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.

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Newton's observation led him to wonder why apples always fall straight to the ground rather than sideways or upward, and it eventually inspired him to develop his law of universal gravitation. However, there is no evidence to support the claim that the apple actually landed on Newton's head, so it is false.

Reference:
https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the "Principia," which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," published in 1752. According to Stukeley, "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind.... occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood."

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.

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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.

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The story of the apple falling on his head is not true because there is no evidence that the fruit truly landed on his head. However, Newton's observation led him to wonder why apples always fell straight to the ground, which motivated him to formulate his law of universal gravitation.

Reference: https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head#:~:text=There's%20no%20evidence%20to%20suggest,his%20law%20of%20universal%20gravitation.

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No, mainly because there is no solid evidence that the apple fell on his head but the more accurate version of this story is that the apple is accelerated, because its velocity varies from zero as it hangs on the tree and goes toward the earth. According to Newton's Second Law, there must be a force acting on the apple to generate this acceleration. It was known as the "gravity," and the related acceleration "gravity acceleration."

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http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/newtongrav.html

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While there's no way to prove that it really happened, it could be true. Isaac Newton is a mathematician and a physicist. So it's logical for one to hypothesize that. An apple falling in his head could poke his interest as to what cause it to fall and maybe that event is what lead him to came to conclusion of the "law of universal gravitation". But in the end this is just all speculations and neither of the said speculations can prove it's veracity.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Newton

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No, There's no actual evidence of the fruit that it landed on Isaac Newton's head but it only led him to observe how the apple fall straightly to the ground rather than falling it sideways or upward and it help him to make the law of universal gravitational.

Reference: https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head#:~:text=There's%20no%20evidence%20to%20suggest,his%20law%20of%20universal%20gravitation.

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the "Principia," which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," published in 1752. According to Stukeley, "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind.... occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood."

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.

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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.

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That is untrue. The only written account of Newton's apple-related events, according to historians, was written by William Stukeley, an antiquarian and early archaeologist who was one of Newton's younger fellows of the Royal Society.

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It's fascinating to hear the stories behind the discoveries and inventions of 'miracles' in science. When we do, none of the anecdotes come close to being as simple and popular as the Apple story that led to the discovery of Gravity by Newton. However, did you know that not everyone believes that story? People believe it to be an apocryphal story that is made-up as a tool to make the presentation of the 'idea of gravity' more plausible.

First, he came up with a claim of 'falling of apple on the head' and then Newton having an epiphany that everything on earth falls towards the center of the Earth. He also claimed that gravity is the reason why the Moon never leaves the Earth, and why the Earth never leaves the Sun. There is no evidence to prove that this happened, although London's Royal Society holds a manuscript that may lead us to the truth. The manuscript has been made digitally available here. However, Keith Moore, the head of the archives at the Royal Society, suspects that the story may not be entirely true.

"Newton cleverly honed this anecdote over time, the story of the apple fitted with the idea of an Earth-shaped object being attracted to the Earth. It also had a resonance with the Biblical account of the tree of knowledge, and Newton was known to have extreme religious views, Mr Moore said.

The story in the manuscript places Newton at his mother's house in Lincolnshire in 1666 where the apple fell from an apple tree in his mother's garden. It was during that time that he was contemplating the complex workings of the Moon orbiting the Earth. After witnessing the fall of the apple in the garden, it took him years to derive the mathematical relationship of gravitational force with the distance. Did the apple hit his head? Did he leave any documentation on the story?

The answer is simple; No! According to historians, the only written document about Newton's apple story comes from one of Newton's younger fellows of the Royal Society, William Stukeley, an antiquarian and proto-archaeologist. Stukeley has the first biography of Britain's most notable scientist called 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life.' So the older Newton would meet with Stukeley regularly and talk. In one particular incident in 1726, Stukeley recalls the dinner.

"After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden & drank thea under the shade of some apple tree; only he & myself," Stukeley wrote in the meticulously handwritten manuscript released by the Royal Society.

"Amid other discourse, he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly the notion of gravitation came into his mind. Why sh[oul]d that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself; occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood.

"Why should it not go sideways, or upwards? But constantly to the Earth's centre? Assuredly the reason is, that the Earth draws it. There must be a drawing power in matter. And the sum of the drawing power in the matter of the Earth must be in the Earth's centre, not in any side of the Earth.

"Therefore does this apple fall perpendicularly or towards the centre? If matter thus draws matter; it must be proportion of its quantity. Therefore the apple draws the Earth, as well as the Earth draws the apple."

The story was told to Stukeley after 50 years of the actual incident. Around the same time, John Conduitt, husband of Newton's niece, also supported the Stukeley's narrative.

There is a house steward at the Woolsthorpe Manor, currently owned by the National Trust. Margret Winn states that still, the same apple tree known as Flower of Kent grows in the front of the house. The tree would have been in Newton's sight from his bedroom window.

"He did tell the story as an old man but you do wonder whether it really happened," said Ms Winn.

The story may have been dramatized by an old man, yet the story of fallen apple is the second best moment in the history of science. First being the Archimedes discovery of the 'volume of objects' while in the bath.

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Did Isaac Newton Lie About The Fallen Apple? The Answer Is Not What You Expected

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It's fascinating to hear the stories behind the discoveries and inventions of 'miracles' in science. When we do, none of the anecdotes come close to being as simple and popular as the Apple story that led to the discovery of Gravity by Newton. However, did you know that not everyone believes that story?

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From what i can see on the internet there are two different story about the falling apple, the one with the apple falling directly in Isaac Newton's head and the one where he only saw the apple fall from the tree.

Regardless of the story, i think that the tree itself was true.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.history.com/.amp/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head&ved=2ahUKEwjI4tK-6eb6AhWkU3wKHWhNA94QFnoECCwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1DWA1826WOYm4RT6Rlv-vl

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woolsthorpe-manor/features/the-story-of-our-apple-tree-at-woolsthorpe-manor&ved=2ahUKEwjI4tK-6eb6AhWkU3wKHWhNA94QFnoECAoQBQ&usg=AOvVaw0_-wlmZ2QuWcXEfkizkDhf

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The story about an apple falling on Newton's head is only partially true based on my research. He did not get hit by it, he just saw an apple falling from a tree from a distance. Nonetheless, seeing that short moment led him to his great invention and theory which contributed so much to experiments, observations, and many other studies.

References:
1. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2170052-newtons-apple-the-real-story/
2. https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi606.htm

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Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward. Although the occurrence of the event is most likely possible, it may also be a product of imagination or narration of an event on a first person point of view. Newton told William Stukeley the apple story in 1726, and it was included in his biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," which was published in 1752. "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same scenario, as when previously, the thought of gravitation came into his head," Stukeley writes—caused by the fall of an apple when he sat in meditative mood. Although there is no evidence that the fruit actually landed on his head, Newton's discovery prompted him to speculate why apples always fall straight to the ground and led to his law of universal gravitation.

references: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/isaac-newton-who-he-was-why-apples-are-falling

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head

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Although there is no evidence that the fruit actually landed on his head, Newton's observation prompted him to wonder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and inspired him to develop his law of universal gravitation.

Reference :
https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head#:~:text=There's%20no%20evidence%20to%20suggest,his%20law%20of%20universal%20gravitation.

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the "Principia," which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," published in 1752. According to Stukeley, "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind.... occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood."

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.

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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.

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I do think it is just a visualization. As per the video we have watched and according to Isaac Newton's background information about formulating the gravitational theory in 1965, an apple fell on his head straight down and not in any direction.

“Gravity really does exist,” Newton stated in 1687. “[It] acts according to the laws which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies.” Before Newton, no one had heard of gravity, let alone the concept of a universal law.

Probably the most correct version of the story is that Newton, upon observing an apple fall from a tree, began to think along the following lines: The apple is accelerated since its velocity changes from zero as it hangs on the tree and moves toward the ground. Thus, by Newton's 2nd Law, there must be a force that acts on the apple to cause this acceleration. Let's call this force "gravity," and the associated acceleration, "acceleration due to gravity." Then imagine if the apple tree was twice as high. Again, we expect the apple to be accelerated toward the ground, so this suggests that this force that we call gravity reaches to the top of the tallest apple tree.

References:
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/isaac-newton-who-he-was-why-apples-are-falling

https://www.amnh.org/explore/videos/space/gravity-making-waves/newton-einstein-gravity

https://physics.weber.edu/amiri/physics1010online/WSUonline12w/OnLineCourseMovies/CircularMotion&Gravity/reviewofgravity/ReviewofGravity.html

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For me it is true, an apple that falls from a tree is an example of a non contact force, because of that there is no contact between the apple and the ground, when the apple is falls down from a tree it is because of the gravitational force.

Reference: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/isaac-newton-who-he-was-why-apples-are-falling

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Sir Isaac Newton was born especially tiny but grew into a massive intellect and still looms large, thanks to his findings on gravity, light, motion, mathematics, and more.

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Mathematics, Physics

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Isaac Newton Kneller Painting

Far more than just discovering the laws of gravity, Sir Isaac Newton was also responsible for working out many of the principles of visible light and the laws of motion, and contributing to calculus.

Photograph of Sir Godfrey Kneller painting by Science Source

Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward.

"He showed that the force that makes the apple fall and that holds us on the ground is the same as the force that keeps the moon and planets in their orbits," said Martin Rees, a former president of Britain's Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science, which was once headed by Newton himself.

"His theory of gravity wouldn't have got us global positioning satellites," said Jeremy Gray, a mathematical historian at the Milton Keynes, U.K.-based Open University. "But it was enough to develop space travel."

Isaac Newton, Underachiever?

Born two to three months prematurely on January 4, 1643, in a hamlet in Lincolnshire, England, Isaac Newton was a tiny baby who, according to his mother, could have fit inside a quart mug. A practical child, he enjoyed constructing models, including a tiny mill that actually ground flour-powered by a mouse running in a wheel.

Admitted to the University of Cambridge on 1661, Newton at first failed to shine as a student.

In 1665 the school temporarily closed because of a bubonic plague epidemic and Newton returned home to Lincolnshire for two years. It was then that the apple-falling brainstorm occurred, and he described his years on hiatus as "the prime of my age for invention."

Despite his apparent affinity for private study, Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667 and served as a mathematics professor and in other capacities until 1696.

Isaac Newton: More than Master of Gravity

Decoding gravity was only part of Newton's contribution to mathematics and science. His other major mathematical preoccupation was calculus, and along with German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, Newton developed differentiation and integration-techniques that remain fundamental to mathematicians and scientists.

Meanwhile, his interest in optics led him to propose, correctly, that white light is actually the combination of light of all the colors of the rainbow. This, in turn, made plain the cause of chromatic aberration-inaccurate color reproduction-in the telescopes of the day.

To solve the problem, Newton designed a telescope that used mirrors rather than just glass lenses, which allowed the new apparatus to focus all the colors on a single point-resulting in a crisper, more accurate image. To this day, reflecting telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, are mainstays of astronomy.

Following his apple insight, Newton developed the three laws of motion, which are, in his own words:

Newton's Law of Inertia: Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Newton's Law of Acceleration: Force is equal to the change in momentum (mV) per change in time. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration [expressed in the famous equation F = ma].

Newton's Law of Action and Reaction: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Newton published his findings in 1687 in a book called Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) commonly known as the Principia.

"Newton's Principia made him famous-few people read it, and even fewer understood it, but everyone knew that it was a great work, rather like Einstein's Theory of Relativity over two hundred years later," writes mathematician Robert Wilson of the Open University in an article on a university website.

Isaac Newton's "Unattractive Personality"

Despite his wealth of discoveries, Isaac Newton wasn't well liked, particularly in old age, when he served as the head of Britain's Royal Mint, served in Parliament, and wrote on religion, among other things.

"As a personality, Newton was unattractive-solitary and reclusive when young, vain and vindictive in his later years, when he tyrannized the Royal Society and vigorously sabotaged his rivals," the Royal Society's Rees said.

Sir David Wallace, director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, U.K., added, "He was a complex character, who also pursued alchemy"-the search for a method to turn base metals into gold-"and, as Master of the Mint, showed no clemency towards coiners [counterfeiters] sentenced to death."

In 1727, at 84, Sir Isaac Newton died in his sleep and was buried with pomp and ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.

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Isaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Apples Are Falling

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Sir Isaac Newton was born especially tiny but grew into a massive intellect and still looms large, thanks to his findings on gravity, light, motion, mathematics, and more.

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There's no evidence to prove that the fruit actually landed on his head, but because of the apple who fell directly into Newton's head, He started to wonder why apple or other things typically fall straight into the ground. And that's how he started thinking of the Universal Law of Gravitation. It is because there are force of attraction between the object and the earth. An object's weight is the force exerted by gravity on the object. The force from the gravity is the result of the gravitational field strength with respect to the object's location.

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First of all, Newton didn't "discover" gravity at all; according to Sciencing, other researchers had done experiments on it and tried to figure it out. And of course, that says nothing of the billions of humans who had lived and died to that point, gravity being an inescapable part of their lives. Newton was simply the first to write a comprehensive law of universal gravitation, according to another History report.

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In all such legends, the infamous story of Newton and an apple falling to his head and suddenly thought of the Gravitational Law was just a mere narrative since the was no concrete evidence of it actually happening. But the story contains the elements on how Newton actually discovered the Law of Gravitation. Newton’s discovery of Gravitational Law was actually by him observing how an apple fell from the tree to ground. It made him ponder how actually gravity works.

reference: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/newtongrav.html

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no, because there's no concrete evidence that the apple really fell in Isaac Newton's head. however, Isaac observations about the apple led him to ponder why the apple going downward not upward.

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There is no evidence that the apple struck his head, and it is possible that he saw an apple tree nearby and saw an apple fall from it. Whether an apple hit the man's head or a person or another apple fell and hit him, he wondered why apples always fell straight to the ground and was inspired to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation.

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The apple didn't fall on anyone's head. Newton thought about an apple falling from a tree, and this led to his theory of gravity. The apple fell from the tree and hit him in the head. The fall of Newton's apple made Newton's apple curious enough to define the law of gravity.

However, the fact remains that Newton did not really define the law of gravity. Bhaskaracharya was one of the first people to understand the laws of gravity. He developed these principles centuries before Isaac Newton was born.

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No because there is no proof that the apple truly landed on Newton's head, his observation led him to wonder why apples always fall downward rather than upward or sideways. This thought eventually led him to formulate his law of universal gravitation.

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England, and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a tree. There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, in his landmark work the "Principia," which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life," published in 1752. According to Stukeley, "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea under the shade of some apple trees... he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind.... occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood."

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.

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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

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Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century "aha moment" that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.