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THIS booklet contains four addresses read at the celebration of Newton's tercentenary on April 9, 1943, in the Institute of Aviation in Kazan. The plain fact of such a celebration when a vital part of the U.S.S.R. was still under the German yoke is note-worthy, especially when it is realized that the man thus honoured was, after all, for Russians, a foreigner. In the general introduction and also in two of the addresses the same comment recurs—the U.S.S.R. celebrates Newton's memory amidst all her war-time occupations and worries, since she is fighting for "freedom of scientific, artistic, and philosophical creation".
Isaac Newton, 1643–1943
(In Russian.) Pp. 82 + 4 plates. (Kazan: Kazan Aviation Institute, 1943.) 10 roubles.
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BIKERMAN, J. Isaac Newton, 1643–1943. Nature 154, 192 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154192b0
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