Sir Isaac Newton and Woolsthorpe Manor

This morning, before leaving Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, and  heading homewards, we  felt we really must visit nearby Woolsthorpe Manor, the home of Sir Isaac Newton. He was born there on Christmas Day in 1642,  and was brought up there by his grandparents. Later, in 1665-7,  he returned to Woolsthorpe  to escape the plague, and spent a so called "Year of Wonders" beginning his research into gravity, maths, and optics. 
My blip shows Woolsthorpe Manor now owned by the National  Trust, with its  famous apple tree. It was through observing an apple  falling from its boughs, that Newton started thinking  about his theory of gravity.

The extra shows, not Tracey Emin's, but Newton's  bedroom!
He was known for engraving and drawing on the walls, and  this photo  shows  some  of his optical diagrams, and how he demonstrated that by passing white light through a prism it could be split into a spectrum of colours.      

Newton was the first scientist  to be knighted. 
 
There is now a science centre at  Woolsthorpe Manor explaining more of his discoveries and thoughts. However, we had arranged to meet family  in Cambridgeshire for lunch, and so will have to return another time.

We ended the day at my mother's home where we will be staying for a few days.