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

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/146 contains:
1	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
2	Photocopied illustrations of mutiple-barelled hand-guns from «???» [Huo Lung Ching / Huo Long Jing], (1412)
3	Letter from Susan [?] of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, providing relevant bibliographical references
4	Photocopied illustrations of hand-guns from «????» [Chhou Hai Thu Pien / Chou Hai Tu Bian], (First published 1562)
5	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
6	Joseph Needham timeline showing the development of the hand-gun, 1400-1800
7	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
8	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'
9	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
10	Letter from Bernard Foley of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A., about muskets and serpentines, and related documents
11	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'
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