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==The tree== {{Main article|Isaac Newton's apple tree}} [[File:Newtons Apfelbaum.jpg|thumb|left|The tree from which the famous apple is said to have fallen]] Isaac Newton recounted to his contemporary William Stukeley how an apple tree in the orchard inspired him to work on his law of universal gravitation.<ref>{{cite web |title=newtons-apple-tree |url=https://royalsociety.org/blog/2012/02/newtons-apple-tree/ |publisher=Royal Society |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life by William Stukeley, page 15 |url=https://ttp.royalsociety.org//ttp/ttp.html?id=1807da00-909a-4abf-b9c1-0279a08e4bf2&type=book/ |website=Royal Society, "Turning the pages" |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref> [[Dendrochronology]] confirms one of the trees in the orchard to be over 400 years old, having regrown from roots surviving from a tree which blew down in 1820.<ref>{{cite web |title=the-most-famous-apple-tree-in-the-world |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woolsthorpe-manor/features/the-most-famous-apple-tree-in-the-world/ |publisher=The National Trust |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref> It is attended to by gardeners, secured with a fence, and cared for by the [[National Trust]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Isaac Newton's apple tree is still alive after over 400 years |url=https://thefactsource.com/isaac-newtons-apple-tree-is-still-alive-after-over-400-years/ |website=The Fact Source |date=21 November 2019 |access-date=19 June 2020}}</ref>{{dubious|date=June 2020}}
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