WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward.

Detailed explanation-2: -When Sir Isaac Newton was sitting under the Apple Tree, thinking about the Universe, an Apple fell on his head and he invented what we call today “First Newton’s Law”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and mathematician and physicist who lived from 1642-1727. The legend is that Newton discovered Gravity when he saw a falling apple while thinking about the forces of nature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Newton came up with the idea that some unseen force must attract the apple towards the Earth. He named this force “gravity”-from the Latin word “gravitas”, meaning “weight”. Newton realised that every object in the Universe attracts every other object in the Universe.

Detailed explanation-5: -There’s no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton’s observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation.

Detailed explanation-6: -Round 1: Newton Newton could describe gravity, but he didn’t know how it worked. Cambridge University, where Newton studied, was closed due to plague in 1665. Finding respite at his childhood home, the 23-year-old plunged into months of feverish mathematical brainstorming.