Vindicated!

I was not wrong.

Newton never wrote about any apple. The story is attributed to a biographer friend and the details (timing) essentially don’t make sense.

With certainty, then, Isaac Newton never wrote that he was hit in the head by an apple, nor that witnessing the fall of an apple from a tree caused him to do anything ever, let alone anticipated an “Eureka” moment relating to gravitational force.

As always, read the actual writings of the actual geniuses!! And don’t lie or repeat baseless claims. (This goes for this Forsyth too.)

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