A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton has bought a sapling from the apple tree said to have inspired the theory of gravity so that he can grow it at the family's cider farm. Giles Wood, 68, from Dorset ...

Young Newton Newton was born at the manor on Christmas Day, 1642, and spent the first few years of his life at the house. Decades later, in 1665, Newton returned to Woolsthorpe when the University ...

The apple tree - in the grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire - that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity Ten saplings from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton are being ...

Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor, a hamlet near the central English town of Grantham, and formulated his theory as he sat under the tree in the garden of his family home and watched an apple ...

That ancient tree lives on what’s now the grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor, in the English county of Lincolnshire. In 1666, according to legend, Cambridge University closed due to an outbreak of ...

A Dallas middle school has a piece of history planted at their school — a tree that is a direct descendant of the one at the home of Sir Isaac Newton that led to the discovery of gravity.

MIAMI An astronaut is planning a unique test of Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity - by taking an original piece of the scientist's famous apple tree on a 5m-mile journey into space.British-born ...

Isaac Newton's apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire has been regarded as a national treasure for more than 300 years. It is believed to have inspired Newton with the "notion of ...

The falling apple in the garden of Woolsthorpe Manor prompted Newton to consider the theory of gravity. Mr Jasper said his "mathematical plotting" of apples falling from the tree at his home meant ...

Towering thinker Sir Isaac Newton carved a now-barely visible doodle of a windmill into a stone wall in his childhood home, according to a news release from the National Trust. The drawing was ...