nigelswift wrote:
Coincidentally, the Royal Society has made Stukeley's memoir of Newton available in facsimile form online today.
http://www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages/
From memory at least two sources recorded it earlier but Stukeley of course made it famous, thus perhaps the most known science fact.http://www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages/
It contains the apple story, which we owe to Stukeley.
I was wondering if in the same way it was because of Stukeley that Robin Hood was believed to be high born.
