Apple Isaac Newton closed to tourists

Apple of Sir Isaac Newton was closed to protect against the damaging effects of bust seriousness and loving tourists from apple.

Visitors to Newton childhood home of Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, are expected to be damaging the roots of the tree. Thus, Willow fencing now encircles the site where the great thinker formed his theory.

The National Trust, which is the owner of the House and grounds, said that the closure was intended to preserve the tree rather than exclude visitors.

"The number of visitors increased by approximately 50 per cent to 33 000 per year in three years." Most people who visit, more soil will become compacted around the tree and on the roots 'Ann Moynihan, an official of the Organization, said the Daily Mail.

The tree already stood a good dose of damage in a storm in 1890 that has blown on. He réenracinées himself, but grew up in a "reverse s form."

But visitors to the site can still enjoy apples from the tree, which is the variety of flowers of Kent and produces green fruit.

Fun fact: Sir Isaac Newton never left an account of his own confirming the legendary story of apple reduction. On the contrary, it appeared in a book in 1727 by the French philosopher Voltaire was published the year Newton died.