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The first was recorded by William Stukeley, who said that after dining with Newton in Kensington on 15 April 1726:
The weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea, under shade of some apple-trees, only he and myself. Amidst other discourses, he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself. Why should it not go sideways or upwards, but constantly to the earth's centre.
From Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life pp19-20
这个是斯图克利的
The first was recorded by William Stukeley, who said that after dining with Newton in Kensington on 15 April 1726:
The weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea, under shade of some apple-trees, only he and myself. Amidst other discourses, he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself. Why should it not go sideways or upwards, but constantly to the earth's centre.
From Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life pp19-20
