He leído en el libro de Walter Lewin "Por amor a la Física" que la ¿leyenda? de la manzana de Newton procede de una obra de William Stuckeley "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life", que la Royal Society tiene disponible para ser vista en línea, junto con otros manuscritos históricos.
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En ella Stuckeley relata (espero transcribirlo bien, pues cuesta leerlo) que
"After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea under the shadow of some appletrees; only he and myself. Amidst other discourse, he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. Why sh(ould) what apple always descend perpendicular to the ground, thought he to himself, occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplation mood. Why sh(ould) is not go sideways, or upwards? but constantly to the Earth's center? Assuredly, the reason is, that the earth drags it. There must be a drawing power in matter."
"After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea under the shadow of some appletrees; only he and myself. Amidst other discourse, he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. Why sh(ould) what apple always descend perpendicular to the ground, thought he to himself, occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplation mood. Why sh(ould) is not go sideways, or upwards? but constantly to the Earth's center? Assuredly, the reason is, that the earth drags it. There must be a drawing power in matter."
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