Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Whose theories about gravity were said to be inspired by a falling apple?"
Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling apple, a 17th-century “aha moment” that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. There’s no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton’s observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England.