A painting of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller, dated to 1689. Towering thinker Sir Isaac Newton carved a now-barely visible doodle of a windmill into a stone wall in his childhood home, ...

The apple tree - in the grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire - that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity An auction of 10 saplings from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton has ...

British archaeologists recently found the remnants of a 17th-century house where Isaac Newton’s mother lived – not far from the site of his famous apple tree. The National Trust announced in a recent ...

Isaac Newton (left) and a Bellarmine Jug piece with an embossed face that was discovered at the site of his mother’s home Newton: © National Trust. Jug piece ...

The story of Isaac Newton's apple tree has gone down in the history books and, remarkably, the actual tree which he used to discover gravity still exists today. Looked after by the National Trust, it ...

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Giles Wood (centre) said it had been "a moving moment" to collect the sapling with his two sons Rollo (left) and Robert A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton who bought a sapling from the apple tree said ...

Scientists will connect two of the most important scientific theories of all time - the law of universal gravitation and the theory of evolution - by unravelling the genetic code of the apple which ...

Towering thinker Sir Isaac Newton carved a now-barely visible doodle of a windmill into a stone wall in his childhood home, according to a news release from the National Trust. The drawing was ...