The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire in ... gravitation by the fall of an apple from a tree. Cartoons have gone further to suggest the apple actually hit ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... Sussex and Macclesfield were pall bearers. The Hon. Sir Michael Newton was chief mourner (London Journal 8 April 1727) Newton's ...