Story of Newton's encounter with apple goes online
This undated photo released by the Royal Society of PA shows Sir Isaac Newton. An 18th in the Century account of how a falling piece of fruit contributed to the development of Newton's theory of gravitation published the Web, so that scans of the fragile manuscript paper broadly available to the public for the first time. Newton, an encounter with an apple is the most famous anecdotes of science and the British Royal Society said it made the documents available online Monday 18 January 2010. (AP Photo / Royal Society / PA)
LONDON-On the 18th from the Century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton developed the theory of gravity is the Web published so that scans of the fragile manuscript paper broadly available to the public for the first time
Newton, an encounter with an apple is the most famous anecdotes of science and the British Royal Society said it made the documents available online Monday.
Royal Society librarian, said Keith Moore, the apple story has managed to retain in the Polish part, because it packs in so much - an example of how modern science works, an implicit reference to the solar system and even an allusion to the Bible.
When Newton described the process of observing a falling apple and advise on the principles behind ", he talks about the scientific method," Moore said.
"The shape of the apple is reminiscent of the world - it is round - and of course the apple of the tree is, in fact, remember the story of Adam and Eve, and Newton as a religious person would have determined that very easy."
The incident occurred in the mid-1660s, when Newton retired to his home in northern England after an outbreak of the plague closed the University of Cambridge, where he had studied.
The Royal Society manuscript, written by Newton's contemporary, William Stukeley, tells of one afternoon in the spring of 1726, as the famous scientist shared the story of tea under the shade of the apple trees. "
"He told me he was just in the same situation as before, if the notion of gravitation came into his mind," said Stukeley.
"It was occasion'd by the fall of an apple as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should the apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, he thought to himself ... why should it not go sideways or up? But always the center of the earth? "Truly, the reason that the earth moves. There must be a tensile force in the matter."
Stukeley Account joins the long-lost notes of the 17th Century, Newton's scientific rival, Robert Hooke, on the website of the Royal Society website.
Users can flip through the two documents using the same page-turning software used to browse Leonardo's sketches and Jane Austen's early work on the construction site of the British Library.
The Royal Society is an academy of scientists founded in 1660 to gather, discuss and disseminate scientific knowledge. It is marking its 350th anniversary this year by more than 60 of the most important scientific work online
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