ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES OF THE EARTH by Petrov, V. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES OF THE EARTH

by Petrov, V.

Delhi (India), 1960: Hindustan Publishing Corp., 267 pages, $9.50 (available through Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Inc., New York)

One of a series of Russian titles in the series "International Monographs on Advanced Mathematics and Physics," this work was translated by B. S. Sharma under the supervision of the Ministry of Defence, Defence Science Laboratory of the Government of India. It is definitely not advanced in treatment and in fact seems designed to acquaint the general reader with fundamentals of basic and applied astronautics. Unfortunately, the translator did not seem to be familar with the subject, explaining why many odd expressions crept into the manuscript. Thus the US Naval Research Laboratory is translated out of the Russian as the Scientific Research Laboratory of the US naval fleet and "Minitrack" comes out as "Minitrek."

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III