What can you see in this picture? Let's consider some simple answers for a simple question: "There is a tree in front of a country house" "It looks like the English countryside" "The tree looks like a fruit tree"....Then, someone could look at the picture again and add "I can see an apple on the ground....the tree must be an apple tree..." And here lies the difference: It IS an apple tree and not an ordinary apple tree, but Sir Isaac Newton's Apple Tree at Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire (in the UK). It is believed that that tree inspired Newton's in 1665 when "the notion of gravity came to mind" after he watched an apple fall. The tree was a rare variety of Flower of Kent and some descendants of it grow now in different places in Cambridge, one in the back yard of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematicals Science, another one in the University Botanic Gardens. According to popular myth the apple actually hit his head and made him start thinking about it. However, according to his own notes, he was sitting indoors when THE APPLE fell off the tree. Whose side are you on?
My diary.
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I was outside, in the garden, at my mother’s home, enjoying a relaxing time.
I was sitting under an apple tree and I was looking at a bird that was trying to get into the house through the window.
Suddenly, an apple fell down and hit me in my head.
I started thinking about what had happened and about why the apple had fallen down.
After a few hours thinking a lot, I arrived at a conclusion: in the middle of the Earth there is a kind of force that makes things stay on the floor, it’s the gravity force.
Isaac Newton
(Javier Guerrero Matallanos )
Isaac Newton 1665.
ReplyDeleteI was visiting my mother in her country house. After I had lunch, I went to the office to correct some exams. For a moment, I looked through the window and suddenly an apple fell down. I started thinking about that, thinking and thinking I got to some conclusions and I discovered the Law of gravity.
(Rocío Camacho 3º ESO Secciones Europeas)
I was in my mother’s country house in 1665. One day, I was reading a book under an apple tree behind the house. Suddenly, one apple fell off and hit me in my head. I started thinking and investigating and then I discovered the law of gravity and my friends planted this tree in the university where I worked…… Now I’m very famous!!!
ReplyDeleteELENA GALIANO CANO 3º ESO Secciones Europeas
NEWTON’S DIARY
ReplyDeleteToday I was sitting under my favourite tree, and suddenly, an apple fell down and hit me. I asked myself:
“Why does it fall DOWN?? It could fly!”
I wanted answers! I looked at the apple and I started to think about this. I held it in my hand and dropped it after some time.
RAQUEL MERHALY PARDO 3º ESO SECCIONES EUROPEAS
One day, I was reading a book under an apple tree. Suddenly, an apple hit me in the head.
ReplyDelete-What the...! Who has thrown this?- I looked around me, but nobody answered.
-Maybe it has fallen down.- I said. I started thinking. I dropped my book and it fell down. So I decided that I had to investigate why things, when they were dropped or thrown, crashed against the ground.
(After I discovered it, a friend told me that he had thrown me an apple).
IVÁN GÓMEZ ASENSIO 3º ESO SECCIONES EUROPEAS
Isaac Newton 1665
ReplyDeleteToday, I'm in Woolsthorpe Manor. I'm visiting my mother, and now, I'm sitting under a tree.........Ouch!! An apple fell down and hit me in the head! Wait a minute! Why do apples fall down and why at that speed? I don't understand this, I'm trying to solve it, but I can't find an answer. Why like that? At that moment?.....What's the reason why.....? I don't know, I am going to think about this slowly.
(Some days later...))
I spent the whole afternoon thinking about it and, finally, I discovered that the apple fell down because of the gravity force.
NURIA MEGÍA CARRASCO 3º ESO SECCIONES EUROPEAS
7th July, 1665
ReplyDeleteThis afternoon I was sitting under an aplle tree reading a book, when an aplle fell down on the grass. I stood up and I walked to the apple. I took it and looked at it slowly. I went back to the place in the grass where I was sitting and I started to think what had happened to the apple and why the apple had fallen.
INMACULADA GARCÍA-ALCALÁ 3º ESO SECCIONES EUROPEAS
It was 1665. I was at my mother's place and I was busy with my things, when suddenly, I looked aoutside. What I saw was very interesting. An apple had fallen down.
ReplyDeleteI asked myself:"How could it happen?"
Then, I started searching and thinking about that. That's how I discovered how the law of gravity works.
ANDRA ELENA GRUMEZA 3º ESO SECCIONES EUROPEAS
1665
ReplyDeleteI was outside under a tree. I was looking around me when an apple hit my head. In that moment, i started thinking. I didn't know why the apple had fallen down. I was amazing because I was visiting my mother and I discovered the Law of Gravity.
Miriam García Romero 3º ESO SECCIONES EUROPEAS
1665 MY DIARY
ReplyDeleteOne day I can't remember, I was thinking about a few theories while I was looking at my notebook under the apple tree. Suddenly, something fell down on my head: It was an apple. I started thinking why the apple had fallen down....
NOW
I know I discovered the Law of Gravity thanks to my apple tree!
SANDRA SÁNCHEZ ROMERO 3º ESO SECCIONES EUROPEAS
Newton´s Diary
ReplyDeleteThis morning I was sleeping under my mother´s apple tree when something fell down and hit my head.
I woke up quickly and I saw a small apple. I picked up the apple and I dropped it. It fell down again!! That was amazing, and I started thinking... " Why does the apple fall down and does not go up?" "Does the weight of the apple have any relation with its fall or it is just God?" I don´t know how but I’ll discover the answers.
Virginia García García 3º ESO Secciones Europeas
i think it is an interesting text because is important we know way Newton was inspired to write the law of gravity
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