Question

directions: read each passage and ask yourself, what is the author doing in this paragraph? write your answer in the summary box and then think of an appropriate title for the passage based on the main idea of the passage. 1. sir isaac newton was contemplating the universe in his garden one day in 1665 when he noticed an apple fall from a tree. newton wondered to himself, why should the apple always fall to the ground? why does it not go sideways or upwards but directly toward the earths center? after much contemplation newton concluded that objects are pulled to the earth through a force that he called gravity, which means heaviness in latin. on july 5, 1687, newton formally expressed his law of universal gravitation in series of books called the principia. summarize this paragraph in one sentence. be specific and clearly explain the main idea. an appropriate title: hand - written title: the discovery of gravity

Explanation:

The passage describes how Newton, observing an apple fall in his garden in 1665, contemplated why apples fall directly to the ground and concluded that objects are pulled to the Earth by the force of gravity, which he later formally expressed in The Principia.

Answer:

Newton's discovery of the law of universal gravitation inspired by an apple - fall.