In the autumn of 1665, on a yeoman estate in the hamlet Woolsthorpe Manor, ripe apples fell on the wet ground. Their fall, an accelerated movement under the influence of gravity, was being watched by Isaac Newton, a twenty-two-year-old student of Trinity College in Cambridge. He had just returned to the family farm from London, …
By Slobodan Bubnjevic/Photo: Southold Historical Society The famous summer photograph from the family archives of a certain David Rothman, who is shown in it with casually dressed Albert Einstein, was taken on a rock at Horseshoe Cove on Long Island in 1939, the time when World War II was just starting in Europe. According to …
For a long time now the letter shown in the photo has been widely circulated on social networks. It is a letter that was allegedly sent to Albert Einstein from the University of Bern on June 6, 1907. In it, the Dean writes to the greatest physicist of the 20th century, who at the time …