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

Needham/NRI2/SCC6/24 contains:
1	Joseph Needham's notes on '+16th Cent. Time Standard Cross-beat escapement and Rolling Ball Stand.'
2	Two letters from Dr. A. G. Drachmann of Lyngby, Denmark, about his review of Joseph Needham's 'Heavenly Clockwork' and other matters
3	Letter from Francis Maddison of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, about summarising information of scientific interest provided by a tulku lama from Tibet
4	Sketch of a striking mechanism of a clockwork copied by Thorkild Schioler from an 17th century Arabic manuscript
5	Letter from Eugenius [Prof. Owen Lattimore] of the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, about the doctoral thesis of David Lattimore on the significance of the poem 'Army Carts' by Tu Fu
6	Postcard showing a famous Prunkuhr in Heidelberg Castle, Germany, constructed in 1556 by Philipp Irmsser, and related notes
7	Letter from Derek de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., about possible references to the sphere of Archimedes discovered by Dom. Sylvester Houédard, and related document
8	Letter from Dom. Sylvester Houédard of Prinknash Abbey, Gloucester, about the Holoviteurm of Augustus Chromatius, and notes by Joseph Needham
9	Letter from Nicholas Lloyd of Caterham, Surrey, accompanying his trypescript of 'A Possible Explanation of the Mechanism of Su Sung's Astronomical Clock of 1090'
10	Letter from Silvio A. Bedini of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., U.S.A., asking for Joseph Needham's advice on a clock made for the Chinese market by Robert Philip of London, (c. 1775-1800), and related documents
11	Letter from N. A. Hudleston of Harrogate, Yorkshire, accompanying a postcard of a water-clock in the grounds of the Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
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