The New Yorker

An Oral History of Isaac Newton “Discovering” Gravity, as Told by His Contemporaries

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...
PBS

Isaac Newton Describes Gravity

At the age of 23, young Isaac Newton realizes that gravitational force accounts for falling bodies on earth as well as the motion of the moon and the planets in orbit. This is a revolutionary step in ...
NPR

Newton's Apple Tree Bound For Gravity-Free Orbit

Sir Isaac Newton famously formulated his theory of gravity while watching an apple fall from a tree. Now a bit of that tree is going into zero gravity. The space shuttle launching Friday will carry a ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

A portion of the tree where Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity is on MIT's campus

M-I-T is known world wide for the innovative thinkers and inventors who've passed through its classrooms. Those scholars have built upon the breakthroughs of the past ...
New York Post

Here’s when the world will end, according to 1704 letter from Sir Isaac Newton

It’s not the end of the world… yet. Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he ...