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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to Newton, we know the force of gravity will seize these apples, spotted on the Stanford University campus on Sunday Nov. 24. (Lisa Krieger/Bay Area News Group) ...

The apple tree - in the grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire - that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity An auction of 10 saplings from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton ...

Newton's original tree stood in his childhood home of Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire from the 1650s until sometime around 1820, when it fell in a thunderstorm. However, cuttings had been taken ...

Still growing in the garden of Isaac Newton's family home, his apple tree can be discovered at Woolsthorpe Manor. The original apple tree, also called The Flower of Kent, is more than 400 years old.

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 ...

Dr Brockington shared this news on Twitter, saying: “We’ve just lost our “Newton’s Apple Tree” to Storm Eunice (gravity is such a downer, arf arf). “The story of Newton’s famous ...

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 ...