The celebrated apple tree, the
fall of one of the apples of which said to have turned the attention of Newton
to the subject of gravity, was destroyed by the wind about twenty years ago;
but it has been preserved in the form of a chair. The house itself has been
protected with religious care. It was repaired in 1798, and a tablet of white
marble put up in the room where our author as born, with the following inscription:-
"Sir Isaac Newton, son of
John Newton, Lord of the Manor of Woolsthorpe, was born in his room, on the 25th of December, 1642."
Nature and Nature's Laws were hid
in night,
God said, "Let Newton be,"
and all was light.
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