EWTON took his degree of Bachelor of LITTLE 

 Arts at Cambridge in January, 1665. The JOURNEYS 

 faculty of Trinity would not even consider 

 his leaving the college : he was as valu- 

 able to them as he would be now if he 

 were a famous football player. Beside the 

 scholarship, there were ways provided so he could 

 earn money by private tutoring and giving lectures in 

 the absence of professors. 



He had written his essay on fluxions, described their 

 application to fluents and tangents, and devised a plan 

 for finding the radius of curvity in crooked lines. In 

 August of the same year that Newton was given his 

 degree, the college was dismissed on account of an epi- 

 demic, and Newton went home to Woolsthorpe to kill 

 time. In September, 1665, he then being twenty-three, 

 while seated in his mother's garden, he saw that sto- 

 ried apple fall. 



What pulled it down ? Some force tugging at it, surely ! 

 Q Galileo had experimented with falling bodies, and 

 had proved that the weight and size of a falling body 

 had nothing to do with its velocity, save as its size and 

 shape might be affected by the friction of the atmos- 

 phere. The first person to put in print the story of the 

 falling apple was Voltaire, whose sketch of Newton 

 is a little classic which the world could ill afford to lose. 

 Adam, William Tell and Isaac Newton each had his 

 little affair with an apple, but with different results. 

 QThe falling apple suggested to Newton that there 

 was some power in the ground that was constantly 



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