The very same tree from which Isaac Newton came up with the law of gravity is still alive and thriving in Woolsthorpe Manor, England, in Newton’s family home and where he spent his childhood.

Preparing for Newton Day Faculty involved in Newton Day events check out Swem Library's Copy of Newton's "Principia" … and some apples. Highlight of the Feb. 22 event is planting of a descendant of ...

Newton was a physicist, mathematician and astronomer, among other things. He was born in 1643 in Lincolnshire, England - said to be the site of the famous apple tree.

It doesn’t look like much—a slender five-foot wand topped by the barest wisp of dried leaf—but it is in fact a descendant of one of the world’s most famous trees—the apple tree that inspired Isaac ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Sir Isaac Newton’s famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an ...

The tree is reputed to be the one from which in 1665 fell the apple that helped Sir Isaac Newton formulate his Universal Law of Gravitation. The original tree died about 1815-1820.

Sir Isaac Newton's famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple fell nearly 350 years ...

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. Sir Isaac Newton famously formulated his theory of gravity while watching an apple fall from a tree back in 1666. Now a bit of that tree is going zero gravity.

An auction of 10 saplings from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton has raised more than £30,000 to help the upkeep of his birthplace. It is believed the scientist's home in Woolsthorpe ...