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A popular story claims that Isaac Newton was inspired

The question was not whether gravity existed

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Grade Level:

11th

Subject Category:

History

Section:

Important People

Lesson Number:

11-8-982008

Words

210

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A popular story claims that Isaac Newton was inspired | 11th Grade
The question was not whether gravity existed

A popular story claims that Isaac Newton was inspired to formulate his theory of universal gravitation by the fall of an apple from a tree. Cartoons have gone further to suggest the apple actually hit Newton's head and that its impact somehow made him aware of the force of gravity. Newton's assistant at the Royal Mint described the event when he wrote about Newton's life:

“In the year 1666 he retired again from Cambridge to his mother in Lincolnshire. Whilst he was pensively meandering in a garden, it came into his thought that the power of gravity (which brought an apple from a tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from earth but that this power must extend much further than was usually thought. Why not as high as the Moon, said he to himself.”

The question was not whether gravity existed but whether it extended so far from Earth that it could also be the force holding the Moon to its orbit. Newton showed that if the force decreased as the inverse square of the distance, one could indeed calculate the Moon's orbital period and get good agreement. He guessed the same force was responsible for other orbital motions and hence named it "universal gravitation."

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