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IN my recent address on Newton to the Royal Society, a version of which was published in NATURE of December 19, I stated that the story of the apple first appeared in the second edition of Voltaire's “Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton”, printed in 1741. The point which I had in mind was that the story is not given in the first edition of that book, which appeared in 1738.
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ANDRADE, E. Newton and the Apple. Nature 151, 84 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151084b0
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