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It was during that sleepless period that I learned, in an article about Isaac Newton’s life and legacy, that the oft-repeated apple story was apocryphal. The main source, I gathered, was Catherine Barton, Newton’s beautiful niece who provided directly to Voltaire that famous account about her uncle. And though I wanted to trust that she was telling the truth, it was wishful thinking to believe that a popular socialite could not spin a tale now and then.