Today Is...Isaac Newton Born

I had always assumed that the Apple logo was a nod towards computer pioneer Alan Turing who took his own life by biting into an apple he had laced with cyanide but it turned out that the Apple logo was in tribute to someone famous, just not the obvious one.
The first Apple logo was of Isaac Newton sitting under a tree with an apple dangling above him and over time they simplified it to just the Apple logo with a bite taken out of it because people kept mistaking it for a cherry.
To many Isaac Newton is most famous for having an apple fall on his head but ask someone to explain any of his 3 laws of motion and they will stare off into the distance and mumble something about gravity.
I do hear quite a lot that Sir Isaac Newton invented Gravity which throws up images of people in the pre-Darwin days having to hold everything down and muttering how glad they will be when someone comes up with a fundamental force so they don't have to keep dragging the dining room table down from the ceiling.   
Luckily, Isaac Newton hadn't decided to sit on a chair on the patio instead of under an apple tree otherwise things may have turned out very differently because when that piece of fruit bounced off his noggin, it set in train a chain of events that would revolutionise our thinking.
It didn't revolutionise anything in the Church though who held fast to the notion that when it came to the secrets of the Universe, everything in it had its natural God-given place and a lot of people were not knocked over by his theory of gravity, invisible forces pulling the planets was apparently more nutty than a man in the clouds nobody had ever seen making the Universe in 6 days but to stray from that theory was apparently messing with God's will as it was God who was mysteriously moving things around.
He set out calculations to prove Gravity, reliably predicting when comets would appear by working out the exact speed and acceleration of an object in space and history proved he scored an enormous victory over the Church and would have been fully justified going up to the Pope and shouting in his face 'My proof is accurate predictions of comets, orbits and planets whereas yours is the odd appearance of Jesus on a piece of toast, sucker'.