Voltaire, writing in English in his Essay on the Civil War in France (1727), spoke of 'Sir Isaac Newton walking in his Garden had the first thought of his System of Gravitation, upon seeing an Apple ...

An apple falling from a tree falls straight down. A ball thrown up, comes back down. And so do we when we jump. That’s because of gravitational forces. An object’s weight will pull it down.

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It was only in 1806 in A History of the Town and Soak of Grantham that Edmund Turnor wrote about the apple falling from the specific tree in Newton’s garden. So, whilst the tree outside Trinity ...