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What is the main idea of the following paragraph?
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 Earth’s
center?” After much contemplation Newton concluded that objects are pulled to the Earththrough a force that he called gravity, which means heaviness in Latin. On July 5th, 1687 Newtonformally expressed his law of universal gravitation in series of books called The Principia.
Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity when he saw an apple fall from a tree.