Price, Derek John de Solla, 1922 - 1983 (historian of science)
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Brief Joseph Needham notes about the academic career of Derek Price of Hove, Sussex, 1948 - 1952
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Copy of a letter from Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. to Combridge, about his remarks on 'Heavenly Clockwork', and copy of Combridge's reply, 1961-04-18 - 1961-04-24
See also SCC2/106/1.
Copy of a letter from Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., accompanying an abstract of his paper 'Mechanical Water Clocks of the 14th Century in Fez, Morroco', 1962-06-15
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge and John S. Major, 'Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean astronomical instruments and clocks', 1380-1780', (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Copy of a letter from Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., to Gari Ledyard of Berkeley, California, U.S.A., about photographs of a clockwork orrery held at the Museum of the University of Seoul, South Korea, 1963-06-27
These documents compliment the correspondence catalogued as NRI2/2/4/5. Occasionally there are duplicates, but these have been retained for continuity of the files.
Copy of an article by D. de Solla Price entitled 'Science as a Science' published in 'The Times Literary Supplement' containing references to Joseph Needham's work, 1966-07-28
Many of the reviews came to Joseph Needham via Cambridge University Press and are accompanied by an explanatory compliments slip.
Copy of an article by Derek Price of Cambridge entitled 'Ancient Instruments in Peking' about the opening of the Peking Observatory to the public in May 1956, and other related documents, 1956-05-04 - 1956-09
The related documents comprise a letter from Anthony [?] of 'Discovery' magazine to Price and attached copy of a 'Times' article about the observatory and its opening; copies of 'New China News Agency Bulletins reporting the opening; notes by Joseph Needham.
Correspondence and other documents arising from the death of Derek J. Price, 1983-08-11 - 1984-04-04
Correspondence with A. J. Turner in le Mesnil-le-Roi, France, about the identification of Chinese astronomical objects in the collections of The Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A., 1980-01-22 - 1980-11-25
The objects include an 'unusual Chinese celestial plaque', a celestial globe and a sundial plate.
The correspondence comprises 4 letters from Turner; copies of 3 letters from Joseph Needham.
The documents also include 11 photographs of the objects; letter from Derek de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., commenting on the plaque; notes by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen; a rubbing of the sundial plate.
Correspondence with Derek J. De Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., about the Japanese system of counting up numbers, and other matters, 1961-05-29
The correspondence comprises 1 letter and 1 note from Price; copy of 1 letter from Joseph Needham.
Other matters discussed include Su Sung's clock; Price's plans for a visit to England; Price's view 'that Euclidean geometry in the form of Ptolemaic astronomy was a the basis of all science..'; study of History of Science at Cambridge; possibility of Needham going to America.
Correspondence with Derek Price at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A., about corrections for 'Heavenly Clockwork' and other matters, 1958-11-24 - 1959-01-19
Other matters discussed include the question of how the authors should be described on the title page; a visit by Joseph Needham to the Purple Mountain Observatory near Nanking, China; a brochure entitled 'A Description of a Most Magnificent Piece of Mechanism in Art', London 1769, about the astronomical clcok of James Cox; possibility of Price's employment in England.
Documents relating to a large Ming dynasty copper sundial in the United States, 1962-07-10 - 1965-06-30
Letter and note from Derek Price in Holt, Norfolk, about the proofs for 'Heavenly Clockwork' and other matters, 1958-10-12 - 1958-10-19
Other matters discussed include the possibility of employment for Price at the new astronomical museum in Greenwich.
Letter from Derek de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A. about an article by Xi Zezong [席澤宗 / Hsi Tsê-Tsung] describing discoveries of astronomical artifacts in China and related documents, 1981-08-26 - 1981-12-10
The article was published in 'Isis'. The related documents include photocopied pages from the article; copy of a letter from Price to John Diebold of New York, U.S.A.; draft letter of reply from Michael Salt on behalf of Joseph Needham.
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, 1959 - 1973-05-04
The related document is a copy of Price's paper 'On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass', ('United States National Museum Bulletin', 1959).
Letter from Derek de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., forwarding four photographs of a set of Chinese paintings collected by the botanist Linnaeus (1707 - 1778), showing the material on a Chinese scholars desk, 1982-07-23
Joseph Needham noted on his file title that this material was 'gone through by Chhien Tshun-Hsün [錢存訓 / Qian Cunxun], Oct 82 and checked.
Letter from Derek J. de Solla Price, forwarding a copy of a report published in the 'New Haven Register' entitled 'A Working Model of the World's First Clock' about John Combridge's Chinese clock reconstructions, 1968-11-17 - 1968-11-18
The documents are mostly concerned with alternative reconstructions of the Chinese water-wheel link-work escapement of Su Sung's clock [蘇頌 / Su Song] made by John Combridge of the Post Office Engineering Department, London and Professor Aubrey Burstall, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Letter from Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. about geometrical diagrams and their role in ancient science, 1970-04-10
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Letter from Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., about a 17th century Korean clock, and related documents, 1962-01-25 - 1962-02-28
The related documents comprise a letter from Jeon Sang Woon of Seoul, South Korea to Mrs. Eri Yagi Shizume of Yale, about the clock; English translation Jeon's letter.
Letter from Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., about a delay in his work in the field of Korean clockwork, 1962-06-15
These documents compliment the correspondence catalogued as NRI2/2/4/5. Occasionally there are duplicates, but these have been retained for continuity of the files.
Letter from Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., about the differential gear, 1972-09-13
Joseph Needham's file title reads 'Mech. Engg., misc > 70 [Dorothy Needham > (contd.), 2nd Edition Material'.
Letter from Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A., about work on Korean clockwork, and other matters, 1962-11-15
Other matters discussed include Joseph Needham's work on 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Letter from Derek Price at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A., thanking Joseph Needham for a postcard sent from Prague and mentionning 'a lady of pleasure at Athens who got the title of 'Clepsydra'', 1957-07-25
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Letter from Derek Price at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., U.S.A., about a loan of £500 from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge to enable the publication of 'Heavenly Clockwork' and copy of Joseph Needham's reply, 1957-05-20 - 1957-05-26
Letter from Derek Price at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., U.S.A., about a report by a medical man in China to the United States Patent Office in 1851, on the subject of Chinese clocks, and other matters, 1957-04-12
Other matters discussed include Price's election to membership to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. There are also related notes by Joseph Needham.
Letter from Derek Price at Yale University, U.S.A., forwarding a copy of a letter sent to him by David Pingree of Harvard, about a description of a water clock in an 15th century Indian text, 1960-04-09 - 1960-04-12
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.