He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts, when an apple fell from a tree. And all at once ... story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas ...

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

The apple tree - in the grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire - that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity An auction of 10 saplings from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton ...

Cambridge University Botanic Garden has lost its "Newton's apple tree" to Storm ... He said the tree was cloned from the one that led Sir Isaac Newton to discover the laws of gravity.