THE PARABLE OF THE APPLE
One day in the year 1666 Newton had gone to the country, and seeing the fall of an apple, as his niece told me, let himself be led into a deep meditation on the cause which thus draws every object along a line whose extension would pass almost through the center of the Earth
One day in the year 1666 Newton had gone to the country, and seeing the fall of an apple, as his niece told me, let himself be led into a deep meditation on the cause which thus draws every object along a line whose extension would pass almost through the center of the Earth
VOLTAIRE (1738)
1666年的某一天，Newton來到了鄉間，看見一只蘋果從樹上掉下來，正如他姪女告訴我的那樣，這使他陷入了沉思;究竟是什麼原因使每一個物體都沿著一條幾乎通過地球中心的延長的直線被往下拉呢?
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