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A fragile manuscript telling the original story of how Newton was inspired by a falling apple has been made public for the first time, the Daily Mail reported. The account of Newton's eureka moment, which led to his famous theory of gravity, forms part of William Stukeley's 1752 biography of the great scientist. The manuscript doesn't mention that Newton was hit by a falling apple and therefore developed his famous theory of gravity. It reads: "The notion of gravitation was occasion'd by the fall of an apple."
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