Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth

52.81 - 0.63305555555556Koordinaten: 52 ° 48 ' 36 "N, 0 ° 37 ' 59 " W

Woolsthorpe -by- Colsterworth Colsterworth is a hamlet of the municipality in the district of South Kesteven the English county of Lincolnshire. The place is known as the birthplace of Isaac Newton.

Woolsthorpe -by- Colsterworth located 170 kilometers north of London and 1 km west of the A1, which is an important north -south connection in the UK.

Woolsthorpe Manor

Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton's birthplace, is a typical small manor house of the late 16th or early 17th century limestone. It is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public. Newton was there on December 25 1642jul. / January 4 1643greg. born. He came from 1665 to 1667, in his so-called because of its findings ' Annus mirabilis ', go back there during the Great Plague of London and also led experiments. It is believed that he has here the observation of an apple on the apple tree, possibly the fall of the apple from the tree, brought in the garden of Woolsthorpe Manor in Newton's law of gravitation. The apple legend is based on a story that Newton himself has his biographer William Stukeley tells 1726:

" ... After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank thea ( tea ) under the shade of some apple trees, only he, & myself. amidst other discourse, he told me what he just in the same situation, as When formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his least " Why Should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, " he thought to him self: occasion ' d by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood: " Why Should it not go sideways, or upwards? Constantly but to the earths center? assuredly, the reason is, did the earth draws it ... " "

" ... After dinner, the weather was warm, we went into the garden and drank tea in the shade of some apple trees, only he and I, he told himself we were talking to me, he would be in the same situation just been, as at that time the idea of gravitation came into his mind. "Why should that apple always fall vertically to the ground ," he thought to himself, inspired by the fall of an apple, as he sat there pondering: " Why should he not up or sideways move rather than constant center of the earth? Of course, the cause is that the earth draws him ... " "

Similar descriptions can be found in Voltaire, Newton's niece Catherine Barton renames it as a source, as well as her husband John Conduitt.

The alleged apple tree of the variety Flower of Kent is to be regarded in the garden. He was inducted in the list of 50 Great British Trees of the Tree Council.