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

Needham/NRI2/SCC2 contains:
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217	'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 5': Documents found in Joseph Needham's room at the Needham Research Institute after his death in 1995
218	Nei Tan [??/ Nei Dan]: Fremantle Lectures, Balliol College, Oxford, 1971
219	Nei Tan [??/ Nei Dan]: Radhakrishnan Lectures, Oxford University, 1981
220	Nei Tan [??/ Nei Dan]: Correspondence with ??? [Chang Chung-Lan / Zhang Zhonglan / Jolan Chang] and others
221	'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 5': Ilustrations
222	Alchemy and early chemistry: Correspondence with Dr. S. Mahdihassan of Hyderabad, India, (b. 1892)
223	Alchemy and early chemistry: Correspondence with Michael Saso and Michel Strickmann
224	Alchemy and early chemistry: Correspondence with Nathan Sivin
225	Chemistry: Correspondence relating to the posthumous publication of 'History of Chemistry' by Professor James Riddick Partington (1886-1965) of Cambridge
226	Alchemy and Chemistry: Lectures given
227	'The Chemistry of Life': Documents relating to a course of lectures given by Cambridge biochemists, 1958-1961, covering the history of biochemistry in the West and China up to and including the Renaissance
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 4': Illustrations
Reference	SCC2/212
Covering Dates	1970–14 Nov. 1980
Extent and Medium	Paper

Index Terms

Chemistry

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/212 contains:

Illustrations 'not used or rejected' from the section on 'Apparatus'. The documents comprise photographs, drawings on tracing paper and photocopies from other publications.
74 pieces; Photograph and paper.

1970–1979

Illustrations 'not used or rejected' from the sections on aqueous solutions, theories and comparisons.
5 pieces; Photograph and paper.

1970–1979

Papers needed for captions. These papers were found in Joseph Needham's room at the Needham Research Institute after his death in 1995. They comprise copies of the illustrations themselves; explanatory texts; notes.
1 bundle; Paper and photograph.

1970–1979

Preparatory work for Figure 1531a, 'Map to show the communication routes, mainly overland, between the Chinese and Arabic culture-areas, as also the relation between Chinese, Iranian and Eastern Mediterranean lands and cities'. The inclusion of a larger fold-out map (Figure 1539) in the volume was also discussed and the papers reflect that. . The documents comprise a copy of a 1937 map showing the 'Landforms of Central Asia' prepared by Erwin Raisz at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, H. U. [?], (The map has been annotated by Joseph Needham, partly on a tracing paper overlay.); typed list of names for the fold-out map; copy of a memorandum from Needham to AS [?] of Cambridge University Press about the inclusion of a map in the volume 'I have come to the conclusion that from galley 155 onwards the text will be incomprehensible without a map..'; two letters from Prof Sir Harold Bailey of Queens' College, Cambridge, about the map; letter from Angela [?] of Cambridge University Press, returning the art work for filing; draft caption for Figure 1531a; preparatory drawings of the map on acetate; related notes.
Creator: Bailey, Harold; Needham, Joseph.
47 pieces; Paper.

18 Sep. 1977–14 Nov. 1980