Plaque de la rue Newton a Paris - Street Plaque in Paris - Rue du...

Plaque de la rue Newton a Paris - Street Plaque in Paris - Rue du 16eme arrondissement de Paris, in tribute to Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), English physicist and astronomer. He carried out numerous optical works before discovering the law of universal gravity, published in 1687 in “Les principes mathematiques de la philosophie naturelles”. This law explains the movements of planets around the Sun, of which Kepler's laws are a consequence. This same law will allow Urban Le Glassrier to discover the planet Neptune, only by calculation. Newton Street, street sign. English astronomer Isaac Newton described the universal gravitation