LONDON -- It always falls down. That's how the apple helped Isaac Newton. An 18th-century account of how Newton developed the theory of gravity was posted to the Web Monday, making the fragile ...

A lot of nonfiction for kids in upper elementary and middle school is what I think of as “book report books.” They’re packed with facts, but not presented in a way that makes them very ...

The story of how Newton came up with his gravitational theory is one of the most familiar in the history of science. He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts, when an ...

It always falls down. That's how the apple helped Isaac Newton. An 18th-century account of how Newton developed the theory of gravity was posted to the Web Monday, making the fragile paper ...

Manuscript of 1752 biography of Isaac Newton, which recounts how a falling apple led him to the theory of gravity, is available on U.K.'s Royal Society Web site.

An 18th-century account of how a falling apple helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web, making the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for ...

The story of Newton's apple-tree revelation has become folklore in the past 250 years, complete with embellishments and twists of historical fact. Here is Stukeley's version of the event: ...

LONDON — An 18th-century account of how a falling apple helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web, making the manuscript widely available to the public for the ...

An 18th-century account of how Isaac Newton developed the theory of gravity by observing a falling apple was posted online Jan. 18, making the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public ...

Philip Ball tells the story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas Day in 1642. ... (Image: Isaac Newton under his apple-tree. Credit: API/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) ...

The original version of the story of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple has been made available online. Newton recounted the story that inspired his theory of gravitation to scholar William ...

Newton recounted the story that inspired his theory of gravitation to scholar William Stukeley. It then appeared in Stukeley's 1752 biography, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life.