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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/343 contains:
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21 Copy of a paper by René de Hetrelon entitled 'Essai sur l'origine des différences de mentalité entre Occident et Extrême-Orient', ('France-Asie')
22 Copy of an article by Eugene Kemenka entitled 'A Forgotten Martyr', ('Rationalist Review')
23 Copy of an article by Humphrey Skelton entitled 'Moonstruck Philosopher', ('Literary Guide')
24 Postcard from V. P. [Victor Purcell] of Cambridge, providing a quotation from A. N. Whitehead, 'Science and the Modern World', (Cambridge, 1926) about the reasons for the lack of scientific development in China
25 Letter from Pierre Lachièze-Rey of Lyon, France, about a passage from Bergson in which he speculates that science grew up from the biological-phychological background, and related notes
26 Letter from N. W. [Bill] Pirie of Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, asking for a reprint of Joseph Needham's 'Wilkins Lecture', and discussing other matters
27 Leaflet advertising Friedrich Dorsch's 'Psychologisches Wörterbuch', (1958)
28 Typescript translation of a passage from P. M. Cibot, 'Essai sur la Langue et les Caractères des Chinois', (1783), about the general development of science in China
29 Copy of a 'Nature' review article by Martin Roth entitled 'Schizophrenia'
30 Letter from Rama Chandra Sinha of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, listing questions relating to the development of Western scientific terminology, and related document
31 Part of a letter from Peter Mayer of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, about his work on Chinese thought structure
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title Letter from Prof. Nolan Pliny Jacobson of Winthrop College, Rock Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A., about the cultural circumstances required for the development of science, and related documents
Reference SCC2/343/36
Creator Jacobson, Nolan Pliny; Needham, Joseph.
Covering Dates 3 Feb. 1967–3 Apr. 1967
Extent and Medium 19 sheets; Paper
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The related documents comprise a typed copy of a paper by Jacobson entitled 'The Cultural Meaning of Science'; copy of an advertisement for Jacobson's book, 'Buddhism: The Religion of Analysis', (Allen & Unwin, 1966); copy of Joseph Needham' reply.

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