Clever Animated “Apples” Google Logo Honors Sir Isaac Newton on His Birthday
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 4, 2010
Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientific minds of his era, and it was while sitting under an apple tree that he, as the story goes, was conked on the head by a falling apple. Thus, he came to his revolutionary theories of gravity. Today is Sir Newton’s birthday, and in his honor, the clever animated Google logo for today demonstrates gravity. Here’s how today’s logo doodle first looks when Google’s home page is initially entered…
Google logo with all apples on branches
After a few seconds, the apple to the far left drops from the logo and bounces a few times below…
Google logo on homepage after the far left apple has dropped from the branch
Wider screenshot of Google home page logo, showing the fallen apple (I’ve tried to capture the animation in action, but can’t, so here is how it looks upon completion):
Screenshot of where apple fell on Google home page
Newton was born on January 4, 1643, so today’s Google logo with the falling apple honors this remarkable man’s 357th birthday and his contributions to science.
Newton once said, “If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”
On religion, he noted, “Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.”
Sir Isaac Newton
From Little About, Sir Isaac Newton must be revered:
To cut a long story short, he was responsible for an assortment of discoveries. While on one hand his Universal Law of Gravitation and the three Laws of Motion deserve special mentions always, Newton was also solely responsible for building the first practical reflecting telescope in history.
Aside from this, Newton developed a theory of color based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colors that form the visible spectrum
Sir Isaac Newton was also instrumental in the formulation of an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In the realm of mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus.
About some other Google logos:
- New December Google Logo Launched Today… Happy Holidays Series 2009 Begins; UPDATED: Lame & Disappointing Google Christmas Logo
- Google Logo Honors Esperanto Day, 150th Anniversary of Birth of Esperanto Creator L. L. Zamenhof
- Popeye Google Logo Celebrates Cartoonist E.C. Segar’s Birthday
- Thanksgiving Google Logo… Snoopy and Woodstock
- Veterans Day Art Tribute: New Google Doodle Logo, Norman Rockwell Military Tributes
- Google’s Doodles Honor Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary… Happy Birthday, Big Bird! (video) – Update: Cookie Monster in New Google Logo – Update Nov. 6: Bert & Ernie in Today’s Google Doodle Logo – Nov. 7, Oscar the Grouch Added – Nov. 8, Hello, Elmo! – Updated Nov. 9, The Count Added – Updated Nov. 10, The Gang’s All Here!
- Mystery of 2 “L’s” on Google’s Homepage
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According to this profile of Newton, the falling apple is a myth. There must be a better way to convey his many exploits.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/n/isaac-newton.html
Not so Mark, the reason Newton was able to observe the falling apple was because he was staying on a farm outside of London which was infested by the Black Plague in the mid-1600s. He was escaping the devastation of the plague.
Also, the reason the plague went away was because most of London burned to the ground, killing the rats and the fleas that were spreading the disease.
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I don’t think anyone noticed that the reason it was animated was because they were able to use Java script and the script uses some of Newtons basic laws of motion. Thank you Newton, without you CGI would not be possible!
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