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OCR: DISCOVERY )F GRAVITY TTIS SAID THAT seeing an apple fall universal gravitation. This explains off tree made Isaac Newton how the com bination ol he moon realize that the force of gravity that forward movement and the pull pulled the apple to the Earth also the Earth' gravity causes the moon kept the moon orbiting the Earth. revolve around the Earth, iust This led him to develop the law all the planets orbit the sun Orbital observations Weak field The pull gravity keeps the of gravity moon in orbit around the Earth The Earth is held in orbit around the sun Strong field the same way. The closer of gravity planet : to the sun, the greater thesun pull gravity on GRAVITATION coml Farth just beld