Isaac Newton (Warkworth) Traditional Cache
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A quick stop on the way past, you will find a place that is a nice quick pull over.
In his book, Roberts recounts Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity (using Newton's own descriptions and notes).
Newton was sitting in his yard when he noticed an apple fall from a tree. The apple fell straight down, perpendicular to the ground, and Newton found himself wondering why the apple never falls upward or off to a side.
Newton soon realized that it was a property of all matter to have an attractive force, including the apple, and even the moon – which moves as one would expect if it was passing the earth but nevertheless being attracted.
It was another 20 years before Newton published his detailed theory of gravity, but he later visited the tree that helped him provoke the idea.
Gaughan elaborates that Newton only had the opportunity to reflect on his orchard because of other chance circumstances: Newton was home because his university was shut down due to an outbreak of plague.
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Yvxr na nccyr, arne gur gerr. Ovfba.
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