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

Needham/NRI2/SCC2 contains:
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369	Inhibitory Factors 1: Primarily Intellectual
370	Inhibitory Factors 2: Primarily Social
371	Inhibitory Factors 3: Documents relating to Joseph Needham's paper 'The Dialogue of Europe and Asia'
372	Chinese attitudes to nature; conservancy, pollution etc.
373	Humanitarianism and Amnesty International's 'Campaign Against Torture'
374	Tenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, Rome, Italy, September 1954
375	Inhibitory Factors 4: Linguistics and Logic
376	Inhibitory Factors 5: Time and change etc.
377	Christianity,Time, Sin etc.
378	'Time and Eastern Man'
379	Rev. Eric H. Pyle's ideas on Christianity and Western science
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	'Selected Translations from the Chinese relative to the History of Science and Technology in China'
Reference	SCC2/385
Covering Dates	1945–5 Nov. 1959
Extent and Medium	Paper

Content and context

The file comprises a 'set of excerpts of translations of Chinese texts which I prepared some years ago for Charles Singer, but which in the end he did not use.' (See Joseph Needham's letter to Samarendranath Sen, 25 January 1951, SCC2/385/3). On the file cover, Needham notes that further sets of the 'Selected Translations' were sent to 'Sen, Bodenheimer, Mason [and] Calder'.

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/385 contains:

Selected translations from the Chinese relative to the History of Science and Technology in China. These include passages from the earliest and most important texts relating to cosmology, medicine, palaeontology, forensic pathology, bronze metallurgy, gunpowder, printing technology, paper technology, citrus horticulture, zoology, meteorology (tides), botany, scientific philosophy, alchemy,.
33 sheets; Paper.

1945–1949

Letter from Stephen Mason of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, thanking Joseph Needham for Chinese quotations [relating to the history of science and technology]. Mason also expresses regret at having missed Needham's Hobhouse Memorial Lecture on the relation between human law and the laws of nature.
Creator: Mason, Stephen.
1 document; Paper.

25 May 1950

Correspondence with Samarendranath Sen of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, India, about his work on a book on the history of science in Bengali. The correspondence comprises 4 letters from Sen; copies of 2 letters from Joseph Needham. Specific matters discussed include other Indian historians of science; books on Chinese science. The documents also include a 'Bibliography of Books in Western Languages on the History of Science and Technology in China' prepared by Needham.
Creator: Sen, Samarendranath; Needham, Joseph.
7 sheets; Paper.

17 Jan. 1951–17 July 1955

Letter from Prof. F. S. Bodenheimer, President of the International Academy for the History of Science, Jerusalem, Israel, thanking Joseph Needham for sharing material on Chinese science. Bodenheimer also wishes Needham luck with his plans.
Creator: Bodenheimer, F. S.
1 document; Paper.

9 July 1955

Letter from Ritchie Calder of Belmont, Surrey, thanking Joseph Needham for sending material [on the history of science in China], and related note.
Creator: Calder, Ritchie.
2 sheets; Paper.

26 Oct. 1959–5 Nov. 1959

Joseph Needham's original file title and attached description of the file contents. The description reads 'Selected Translations from the Chinese relative to the History of Science and Technology in China'.
2 sheets; Paper.

1950–1955