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THE three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Isaac Newton fell on December 25, 1942. At that time an international celebration to mark the occasion was out gi the question, but the Royal Society devoted tfhe greater part of its anniversary meeting on November 30 of that year to lectures on Newton and hfs work. Sir Henry Dale, who was president of the/Royal Society at that time, spoke in general terms of the significance of Newton as an outstanding figure in the progress of Western science and philosophy. Lectures were given by Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade, Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans, which we were able to print in Nature of December 19, with an article by Prof. S. Brodetsky on Newton as scientist and man. The Physical Society and other learned bodies also had special lectures.
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Newton Tercentenary Celebrations. Nature 158, 90 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158090a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158090a0