Origin legend
Newton's apple
Down it fell, and up came gravity.
See it clearly
- What's there
- The apple tree
- Legend from
- Woolsthorpe
- Tone
- Curious
The apple that fell.
Newton said he first thought about gravity after watching an apple fall at Woolsthorpe in 1666. That tale appears in John Conduitt's notes of 1726. The apple hitting his head was added later. The old tree blew down in 1816, but part of it survives in the garden.