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A Royal Society, a comemorar 350 anos, disponibiliza nas suas páginas Web a cópia do manuscrito de William Stukeley, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life (1752), no qual ele descreve a história da maçã de Newton, que lhe foi contada pelo próprio: ver aqui.‘After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea, under the shade of some apple trees… he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion’d by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself…’Esta é a origem da lenda. Muitos relatos e cartoons da maçã têm sido bastante exagerados...