He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts, when an apple fell from a tree ... the story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas Day in 1642.

Isaac Newton changed the way we ... The story of the falling apple has became part of the mythology that surrounds Newton, as Robert Hannah's 19th Century portrait shows. At the very end of ...

While apples do take the podium when it's about the theory of gravity. We've all read the tales of how Sir Isaac Newton penned the theory of gravity, and the trivia around it is well-known.