From ancient sundials to your wristwatch, the history of timekeeping is filled with artifacts that prove mankind’s obsession with accurate timekeeping.
And what better housewarming gift for a space enthusiast than the tree that started it all. The Malus pumila Rosaceae, or Flower of Kent, now growing heartily on McNeill s property, is one of a handful of scions, or cuttings, growing around New Zealand. The original is still standing at Woolsthorpe Manor, in Lincolnshire, in the United Kingdom, where Newton escaped a bubonic plague outbreak for what historians call his Year of Wonders, owing to his contributions to optics, physics and calculus. It was later propagated and planted in the grounds of the England’s National Physical Laboratory.
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