Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Handwritten tale of Newton’s apple goes online
[ Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:53:47 GMT ]

Royal Society librarian Keith Moore holds the manuscript of "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton" by William Stukeley, pointing to the word "gravitation." A virtual copy of the fragile 18th-century manuscript was put online Monday.An 18th-century account of how Newton developed the theory of gravity has been posted to the Web, making the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.


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