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It was purportedly 1665 when an apple fell from a tree at the feet of Isaac Newton as he walked through a garden, prompting his formulation of universal natural laws, or so Newton’s favorite niece reported many years later to his biographer, her husband John Conduitt. Apocryphal or not, the symbolism of apple and garden is hard to miss. God and the serpent are both absent – a deletion that strips the divine from accounts of causation, reflecting the new paradigm of natural law that the falling apple prompted Newton to develop.

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The Ambivalent Encounter with the Flaw in the World

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    2025年

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  • Stefani Engelstein

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It was purportedly 1665 when an apple fell from a tree at the feet of Isaac Newton as he walked through a garden, prompting his formulation of universal natural laws, or so Newton’s favorite niece reported many years later to his biographer, her husband John Conduitt. Apocryphal or not, the symbolism of apple and garden is hard to miss. God and the serpent are both absent – a deletion that strips the divine from accounts of causation, reflecting the new paradigm of natural law that the falling apple prompted Newton to develop.