"When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation ... A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'."
Isaac Newton

January 1, 1970

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Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto X (1823)

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