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Newton's Apple and Galileo's Dialogue

Newton did see the apple fall, but what was it that inspired him to link the apple's descent to the moon in orbit and arrive at the law of universal gravitation? It may have been a diagram in the "Dialogue"

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 243 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Newton's Apple and Galileo's Dialogue” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 243 No. 2 (), p. 150
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0880-150