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

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/72/2 contains:
1	Correspondence with Willy Hartner of Bad Homburg, Germany, about the astronomical instruments of Jamal al-Din and armillary spheres in general
2	Galley proofs of an article by Willy Hartner entitled, 'The Astronomical Instruments of Cha-ma-lu-ting, their identification, and their Relations of the Instruments of the Observatory of Margha', ('Isis', 1950)
3	Joseph Needham's notes on the torquetum from R. Wolf's, 'Handbuch d. Astronomie, ihrer Geschichte und Litteratur', (Zurich, 1890)
4	Correspondence with Martin Johnson of The University, Birmingham, about his work on early instruments and related documents
5	Joseph Needham's notes on the work of Tycho Brahe, (1549-1601)
6	Chinese postage stamp showing an armillary sphere
7	Correspondence with members of the Legation of the People's Republic of China to Switzerland about the date of an armillary sphere at the Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanking, and related documents
8	Copy of a letter from Joseph Needham to S Schoken of Jerusalem, Israel, expressing thanks for a visit to the Schoken Library in Israel and describing the highlights of his visit
9	Documents relating to the transcription of writing on Jamal al-Din instruments
10	Three pages of illustrations for a 'Kuo Shou-Ching [??? / Guo Shoujing] sub-section' of a 'Stratton Festschrift', including draft captions and other preparatory work
11	Copy of a review of H. C. King's, 'The History of the Telescope', (London, 1955) published in 'Journal of the British Astronomical Association'
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