Janus: Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Needham/NRI2/SCC2 contains:
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141	Gunpowder Special 1: Incendiaries
142	Gunpowder Special 2: Bombs and grenades, mines, fire-lances and eruptors
143	Gunpowder Special 3: Metal-barrel guns and cannon, general
144	Gunpowder Special 4: Metal-barrel hand-guns and cannon, earlier period (1290 to 1520)
145	Gunpowder Special 5: Metal-barrel guns and cannon, later period (1520 to 1841); solid projectiles; shells; shields
146	Gunpowder Special 6: Arquebus and musket
147	Gunpowder Special 7: Rockets
148	Gunpowder Special 8: Rockets correspondence
149	Gunpowder Special 9: Peaceful Civil Uses
150	Gunpowder Special 10: Inter-cultural transmissions
151	Gunpowder Special 11: Correspondence
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	Gunpowder Special 6: Arquebus and musket
Reference	SCC2/146
Covering Dates	1958–1985
Extent and Medium	Paper

Index Terms

Military Engineering

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/146 contains:

Letter from Noel Perrin of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A., about his book 'Giving up the Gun; Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543 to 1879', (Boston, 1979), and related documents. The related documents comprise Joseph Needham's notes from the book; photocopy of a page from the book dealing with 'How to Use a Matchlock in the Rain'.
Creator: Perrin, Noel; Needham, Joseph.
8 sheets; Paper.

24 Aug. 1981

Photocopied illustrations of mutiple-barelled hand-guns from «???» [Huo Lung Ching / Huo Long Jing], (1412).
2 sheets; Paper.

1980–1985

Letter from Susan [?] of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, providing relevant bibliographical references.
1 document; Paper.

2 June 1981

Photocopied illustrations of hand-guns from «????» [Chhou Hai Thu Pien / Chou Hai Tu Bian], (First published 1562).
2 sheets; Paper.

1980–1985

Joseph Needham's notes on the hand-gun, arquebus, musket etc. from a talk with Howard L. Blackmore of The Armouries, H. M. Tower of London.
1 document; Paper.

1980

Joseph Needham timeline showing the development of the hand-gun, 1400-1800.
1 document; Paper.

1980–1985

Letter from Liu Zuwei of the Shanghai Hao Tong University, China, about firearms from Rum [?? / Lu Mi], mentioned during a Joseph Needham lecture in Shanghai, and related letter to Lu Gwei-Djen. Liu's letter to Lu praises 'Science and Civilisation in China' and originally accompanied offprints of his own work.
Creator: Liu Zuwei.
2 sheets; Paper.

24 Sep. 1981–20 Oct. 1981

Joseph Needham's notes on the serpentine from a lecture by Yoshida Mitsukumi, given at a Symposium in Kyoto, Japan, and related draft paragraph for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
2 sheets; Paper.

5 Oct. 1981

Joseph Needham letter to The Oriental Librarian, New York Public Library, New York City, U.S.A., about a Japanese treatise on musketry dating from 1595, and other Japanese works, and related documents. The related documents comprise a reply from Joseph T. Rankin, Curator of the Library's Spencer Collection (Rankin returns Joseph Needham's original letter supplying characters for the works mentioned); photocopied pages from a 'Gyokueido catalogue' describing another manuscript of the treatise.
Creator: Needham, Joseph; Rankin, Joseph T.
8 sheets; Paper.

22 May 1981–1 Feb. 1982

Letter from Bernard Foley of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A., about muskets and serpentines, and related documents. The related documents comprise photocopied pages from a study by Foley on the origin of gearing; Joseph Needham's notes.
Creator: Foley, Bernard; Needham, Joseph.
4 sheets; Paper.

11 May 1982

Letter from Howard L. Blackmore in Caterham, Surrey, congratulating Joseph Needham for being awarded 'China's highest prize for natural sciences' and looking forward to the publication of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 7'.
Creator: Blackmore, Howard L.
1 document; Paper.

1 Dec. 1983

Booksellers leaflet advertising Hara Tomio 'The Muskets of Tanegashima Island', (Tokyo, 1958).
1 document; Paper.

1958–1969

Letter from Kanehira Maruo of Gothenburg University, Sweden, providing references to Japanese works. The documents also include a letter from Kanehira to Carmen Lee, providing further references.
Creator: Kanehira Maruo.
3 sheets; Paper.

25 June 1985–22 July 1985

Photocopy of an illustration from «???» [Wu Pei Chih / Wu Bei Zhi], (1628), showing a musket rest, and related notes by Joseph Needham.
3 sheets; Paper.

1980–1985

Annotated typescript and manuscript draft sections intended for the chapter of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 7' entitled 'Later developments in hand-guns; the arquebus and the musket'.
36 sheets; Paper.

1980–1985

Related notes and bibliographical references.
47 sheets; Paper.

1960–1985

Joseph Needham's original file title.
1 document; Paper.

1980–1985