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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/31/1 contains:
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3 Photographs of a [F?] Bernier manuscript on Confucianism and the government of China, held in the Biblioteque De L'Arsenal, Paris and related note by Joseph Needham
4 Typescript copy of a passage on the 'Jesuit attitute to Confucianism', taken from Louis Lecomte, 'Nouveaux Mémoires sur L'état présent de la Chine', (Paris, 1696)
5 Typescript copy of a note from Arthur Waley to Joseph Needham about the possibility of William Blake having seen Taoist works
6 Typed extrracts from Gabriel Magalhaens', 'A New History of China, containing a 'Description of the Most Considerable Particulars of that Vast Empire' and related notes
7 Copy of an article by Victor E. Neuburg published in 'The Literary Guide', entitled, 'In Defence of Thomas Paine'
8 Cutting of a 'Times' article by William Harris entitled, 'The Historian of Formosa, An Eighteenth-Century Hoax'
9 Letter from Paul Lecieux of France, providing Joseph Needham with references to related works
10 Joseph Needham's notes on Pasquale d'Elia's 'Le Generalità sulle Scienze Occidentali; Hsi Hsüeh Fan di Giulio Aleni', (Rivista di Studi Orientali, 1950)
11 List of books on missionaries in China available for puchase from Jerrold G. Stanoff, Rare Oriental Books, California, U.S.A.
12 Photograph of a painting of an 'allegorical group of arts and sciences' probably by Tung Chhi-Chhang [??? / Dong Qichang], (1555-1636)
13 Correspondence with J. L. Cranmer-Byng about his discovery of a manuscript of an appendix of Lord Macartney's observations on China with attached observations on the state of medicine, surgery and chemistry in China by Dr. Hugh Gillan
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title Cutting of a 'Times' article by William Harris entitled, 'The Historian of Formosa, An Eighteenth-Century Hoax'
Reference SCC2/31/1/8
Creator Harris, William.
Covering Dates 18 Oct. 1954
Extent and Medium 1 document; Paper
Content and context

The article deals with the hoax history book written by Psalmanazar.

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