STEP #07 - Il mito
Il mito più famoso di tutti quelli riguardanti Newton, è sicuramente quello della mela che cadendo sulla sua testa gli ha fatto pensare alla possibile esistenza della forza di gravità.
Ma era davvero andata così?
Quando la famosa mela cadde l'unico presente sul posto era Newton, e fu proprio lui a parlarne con William Stukely, il quale le riportò così: "Una sera, dopo cena, il clima era mite. Andammo in giardino a bere del te, sotto l'ombra di alcuni meli, soli. Nel mezzo di altri discorsi, Newton disse che era esattamente in quella situazione quando ebbe l'idea della gravità. Era seduto, meditando, quando una mela che cadeva gli fece pensare: perchè la mela cade sempre perpendicolare al terreno".
Da queste parole sembra che la mela non gli cadde in testa, e lo stesso Newton non era seduto sotto un melo.
ENGLISH VERISION
Atwood's machine was used for the experimental demonstration of the laws of uniformly accelerated motion. These laws derive directly from Newton's Principles of Dynamics.
The most famous myth of all those concerning Newton is certainly that of the apple that falling on his head made him think about the possible existence of gravity. But had that really happened?
When the famous apple fell the only one present on the spot was Newton, and it was he who talked about it with William Stukely, who reported it like this: "One evening, after dinner, the weather was mild. We went to the garden to drink tea, under the shade of some apple trees, alone. In the midst of other talks, Newton said he was exactly in that situation when he had the idea of gravity. He was sitting, meditating, when a falling apple made him think: why does the apple fall always perpendicular to the ground ".
From these words it seems that the apple did not fall on his head, and Newton himself was not sitting under an apple tree.
sitografia:
http://www.altrastoria.it/2018/05/24/newton-mela-leggenda/
https://maifidarsidellamela.weebly.com/newton.html
https://books.google.it/books?id=Yj1HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA144&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
Atwood's machine was used for the experimental demonstration of the laws of uniformly accelerated motion. These laws derive directly from Newton's Principles of Dynamics.
The most famous myth of all those concerning Newton is certainly that of the apple that falling on his head made him think about the possible existence of gravity. But had that really happened?
When the famous apple fell the only one present on the spot was Newton, and it was he who talked about it with William Stukely, who reported it like this: "One evening, after dinner, the weather was mild. We went to the garden to drink tea, under the shade of some apple trees, alone. In the midst of other talks, Newton said he was exactly in that situation when he had the idea of gravity. He was sitting, meditating, when a falling apple made him think: why does the apple fall always perpendicular to the ground ".
From these words it seems that the apple did not fall on his head, and Newton himself was not sitting under an apple tree.
sitografia:
http://www.altrastoria.it/2018/05/24/newton-mela-leggenda/
https://maifidarsidellamela.weebly.com/newton.html
https://books.google.it/books?id=Yj1HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA144&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
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