The day, backed by UNESCO, recognises the huge contribution that Science Centres and Museums make every day, on every continent, in inspiring young people and families with science.įor the 2017 International Science Centre and Science Museum Day ASDC celebrated the one year anniversary of our Newton apple tree's alongside the Science Centres and Museums who took part.
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On the 10th of November 2016, Newton's Apple Seed growers joined forces to celebrate International Science Centre and Science Museum Day. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridgeshire.STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire.The UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres, Bristol.Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, Cheshire.Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, Widnes.Eureka! The National Children's Museum, Halifax.Jannette Warrener, Operations Manager for Woolsthorpe Manor Who took part? He truly shaped modern scientific thinking here at Woolsthorpe when he worked on his theory of gravity and also explored light and calculus.” “I’m delighted to share apple pips with other amazing sites for science across the country and hope that the project will engage young people with the fascinating story of Newton.
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The apple pips were donated by National Trust’s Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, the birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton and where the famous tree still flourishes in the orchard, continuing to inspire visitors from all across the world. This unique and rare event celebrated the World's first UNESCO-backed International Science Centre and Science Museum Day. Science Centres and Museums attempted to grow their very own Newton's Apple Tree, sharing the science and stories with school children and the public. In 2016, seeds from that very same apple tree were collected and sent to specially selected Science Centres and Science Museums all across the UK. Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired his revolutionary theories about gravity. No matter what the true details are, this “apple incident” serves as proof that inspiration can be hidden in even the most unlikely of corners.Newton's Apple Seeds: Celebrating International Science Centre Day
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Newton left no written account confirming or contradicting these speculations, however there are documents written by others who had spoken to him in his later years, suggesting that he did in fact find his inspiration in the fall of an apple. Furthermore, there is speculation about whether this incident really was the birthplace of Newton’s theory of gravity. It is unknown whether the apple did in fact strike Newton on the head, or if he simply observed its motion from afar. Though it may well be greatly embellished by its storytellers, including Newton himself, it provides an idea of where the law of gravity was born. This anecdote is one of the most famous in the history of science. It was in this instant, through observing the fall of an apple, that Isaac Newton experienced a momentary and came up with his revolutionary theory of gravity. It was while he sat thus, in complete serenity, that a rogue apple fell from tree under which he was sitting and struck him on the head. It was 1666, during the time of the plague epidemic, when Isaac Newton sat under an apple tree in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire, pondering the physics behind the orbit of the planets.