00:23Hello again, Peabody and Sherman here, but not for long, we are just about to leave for
00:27Cambridge, England.
00:28And what's the year, Mr. Peabody?
00:301686, Sherman, where we shall meet that eminent mathematician and experimental philosopher,
00:35the man who proved the law of gravity with the falling of a falling apple, Sir Isaac Newton.
00:40The way that machine responded beautifully, depositing Sherman and me at the base of an
00:45English apple tree.
00:46Sure enough, there was Sir Isaac Newton.
00:50I'm ruined.
00:51It's the end of everything for me.
00:54Something wrong, Mr. Newton?
00:55Yes, it's my theory on gravity.
00:56It won't work.
00:57Of course it will.
00:58You simply take an apple from the tree, toss it into the air, and it will fall.
01:02Would you care to wager?
01:03By the tone of his voice, I know he had attempted what I had just prescribed, but I insisted he
01:08try again.
01:09Very well.
01:10I have the apple, correct?
01:11Correct.
01:12I toss it in the air thusly, correct?
01:14Correct.
01:15And now it will fall to the ground, correct?
01:18Incorrect.
01:19Oh, strange as it sounds, the apple remained in mid-air.
01:22But that's impossible.
01:23Whatever goes up must come down.
01:25Everybody knows that.
01:26Quite.
01:27You know it, and I know it, but those ruddy apples don't seem to know it.
01:31I assure you there is a plausible explanation for everything.
01:34Observe.
01:35Plucking the apple from the air, I neatly sliced it open to examine the interior.
01:41Hmm.
01:42Just as I suspected.
01:44A rare species of fluttering fruit fly.
01:47I'm afraid it's become quite clear that I shall never be able to prove the law of gravity
01:51with a falling apple if those apples won't fall.
01:54May I suggest you simply find another source of apples?
01:57I said, champion idea.
01:59Why didn't I think of it?
02:01Going into the tower, we managed to locate the local fruit peddler.
02:04One apple, please.
02:05Hey, I bought a nice banana.
02:07No, thank you.
02:08An apple, please.
02:09Maybe you like a good marshmallow.
02:11What have you got against apples?
02:13Nothing, except I.
02:15Don't got no apples.
02:16Well, why didn't you say so?
02:18You didn't ask me.
02:19All right, then give me a banana.
02:21I guess it'll fall as well as a blooming apple will.
02:23Gosh, he can't do that.
02:25History will be all wrong if he proves the law of gravity with a banana.
02:29Don't worry, Sherman.
02:30If he tosses the banana into the air from where he is standing,
02:32I am certain it will not come down.
02:35I hereby prove that what goes up must come down
02:38by tossing this banana into the air and, uh, uh, and, uh...
02:43Oh, Jove, it didn't come down.
02:45Don't tell me I've proved there is no gravity.
02:48No, Sir Isaac, only that monkeys like bananas.
02:51Good heavens, it is a monkey.
02:55Fate seemed to be working against Sir Isaac,
02:57and needless to say, he was becoming quite discouraged.
02:59It's no use, gentlemen.
03:00There's simply no place else to find an apple.
03:03You're mistaken, Sir Isaac.
03:04I am certain that you can obtain an apple right across the street.
03:07The schoolhouse, of course.
03:10There's always an apple for the teacher in a schoolhouse.
03:13Sir Isaac dashed into TS-32 and explained his plight to the teacher,
03:17who, of course, was only too happy to give him her apple for such a worthy cause.
03:20With success in sight, Newton happily ran from the school,
03:23only to have misfortune overtake him once more.
03:27The apple rolled from his hand with such force that it rolled for two blocks
03:30and directly into the Cambridge Polo Grounds,
03:32where it was, quite naturally, mistaken for the ball by one of the players.
03:36The apple was driven through the goalposts for the winning point, I might add,
03:39hit a spectator swirling on the head,
03:41flew high into the air where it came to rest,
03:43of all places, on top of a very high flagpole.
03:46That did it. This is one of those things you just can't fight.
03:49Oh, one moment, sir.
03:50I feel that at last you can prove your law of gravity with no further ado.
03:54Not with that apple I can't.
03:56I could never climb way up there to get it.
03:58You don't have to.
03:59Taking Sir Isaac, I quickly positioned him directly beneath that flagpole.
04:03Then a glance at my watch told me my timing was perfect.
04:06But I don't understand. How can...
04:07Hold perfectly still, sir. You will know in exactly four seconds.
04:10Four, three, two, one.
04:14Now.
04:14Well, as usual, my calculations were absolutely accurate.
04:18On the nearby Tower of London, the Sunset Gun was fired.
04:22That slight vibration shook the apple from its perch,
04:25and it fell, hitting Sir Isaac so that he was certain to notice,
04:28so that at last he was able to prove his theory.
04:31Boy, sometimes it's sure hard for famous people to get famous.
04:34That's right, Sherman.
04:35Isaac Newton's brother Figby had his trouble before he became famous, too.
04:38Isaac Newton's brother Figby? What's he famous for?
04:42Oh, he invented a cookie.
04:43Oh, Mr. Peabody, you don't mean...
04:47I certainly do.
04:48Figby Newton was the inventor of the Fig Newton.
05:01The
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