When the house was repaired in 1798, a tablet of white marble was put up by Mr. Turnor in the room where Sir Isaac was born, with the following inscription: “Sir Isaac Newton, son of John Newton, Lord of the manor of Woolsthorpe, was born in this room on the 25th December, 1642.” Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night, God said, “Let Newton be,” and all was light. The following lines have been written upon the house: Here Newton dawned, here lofty wisdom woke, And to a wondering world divinely spoke. If Tully glowed, when Phædrus’ steps he trode, Or fancy formed Philosophy a god; If sages still for Homer’s birth contend The Sons of Science at this dome must bend. All hail the shrine! All hail the natal day, Cam boasts his noon,—This _Cot_ his morning ray. The house is now occupied by a person of the name of John Wollerton. It still contains the two dials made by Newton, but the styles of both are wanting. The celebrated apple-tree, the fall of one of the apples of which is said to have turned the attention of Newton to the subject of gravity, was destroyed by wind about four years ago; but Mr. Turnor has preserved it in the form of a chair.[135] The chambers which Sir Isaac inhabited at Cambridge are known by tradition. They are the apartments next to the great gate of Trinity College, and it is believed that they then communicated by a staircase with the observatory in the Great Tower,—an observatory which was furnished by the contributions of Newton, Cotes, and others. His telescope, represented in _fig. 3_, page 41, is preserved in the library of the Royal Society of London, and his globe, his universal ring-dial, quadrant, compass, and a reflecting telescope said to have belonged to him, in the library of Trinity College. There is also in the same collection a long and curled lock of his silver white hair. The door of his bookcase is in the Museum of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.