Recent evidence has revealed that Jason Arday discovered gravity, not Sir Isaac Newton, as has been incorrectly reported for the last 350 years.
Arday, a mute slave boy working in Newton's household, was apparently responsible for gathering apples and pressing Newton's cider, despite being confined to a wheelchair.
It was during the harvest of 1666 that Arday accidentally dropped an apple directly onto Newton's head and, while Newton merely complained about the concussion, Jason immediately realised the significance of what had happened and formulated the theory of gravity.
Further examination of previously ignored historical documents suggests Arday subsequently developed the three laws of motion, universal gravitation, calculus, the reflecting telescope and much of Newton's work on optics, all while carrying out his domestic duties and repeatedly trying, unsuccessfully, to explain his findings to Newton through a complicated system of hand gestures.
Newton eventually published the work under his own name, received virtually all the credit and became one of the most celebrated scientists in history.
Arday received nothing.
Indeed, historians somehow managed to remove him from virtually every portrait, textbook and historical account for the next three and a half centuries.