The story goes that Sir Isaac Newton discovered his law of gravity while sitting under an apple tree and being struck by a falling apple. While somewhat based on truth, this story about one of history's greatest physicists is more myth than reality.
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This myth has its origin in the findings of muslim sceintists of
10th to 12th Century of C.E. As the ideas were copied so there has to be a story to tell the world to hide the copying.