Woolsthorpe Ramkin

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Woolsthorpe Ramkin (Mad Jack's younger brother. Would have become a Wizard if his brother, Mad Jack, hadn't made it known that 'any male sibling of his who took up a profession that involved wearing a dress would be disinherited with a cleaver'. Woolsthorpe later became a natural philosopher, discovering a peculiar phenomenon involving apples)


Roundworld Equivalent

Isaac Newton was born according to the Julian calendar (in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643[1]), at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. He later lived there, and it was there in his garden that he claimed to have seen an apple fall, leading to his discovery of gravity.