No apple hit Newton on the head.

1666 · 1687 · apart: 21 years

He himself said he saw one fall in his garden and wondered why it always dropped straight down; the bump on the head was added later.

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• Newton's Principia1687 · London. Isaac Newton published the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, setting out his three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. One mechanics for heaven and Earth became the foundation of classical physics.

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