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This book contained:
- 1 handwritten letter from Artur Zempliner to Joseph Needham, 19 Jul. 1967
- 1 carbon typescript letter from Joseph Needham to Artur Zempliner, 25 Jun. 1967
- 1 sheet containing a bibliographic note relating to Artur Zempliner by Joseph Needham.

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This book contained:
- 1 postcard with a photograph of Bohumil Němec, and signed by him, on the front with a handwritten message to Joseph Needham on the back, 23 Jun. 1957
- 1 torn piece of paper with a handwritten note 'Němec - Dějiny 0vocnictvi "History of Pomology"́'.

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Honorary degrees, membership of foreign learned societies, grants of medals and a few stray items.

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Booklet concerning the medals of the Order of the White Lion.

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Needham notes that these were 'probably xeroxed for H P-Y [Ho Peng-Yoke] or WL [Wang Ling]'. Most of the original documents are catalogued in SCC2/139-151. The documents also include photocopies of Tenny L. Davis, 'Early Pyrotechnics'', ('Ordnance, 1948); copy of Nambo Heizo's article, 'Who Invented Explosives?', ('Journal of the Industrial Explosives Society, Japan', 1967), and English translation of same.

Scope and Contents Orchestra of St. Luke, Music on original instruments, New York Pickup Group; New Yor Period Instrument Ensemble, L.A. Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Radio Sinfonie Orchester des Südwestfunks Badeb-Baden, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, The Queenland Philharmonic Orchestra; Montreal Symphony Orchestra; WA Symphony Orchestra, Drotting-Holms Barock Ensemble, Cleveland Orchestra, Lausanne Conservatoire, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Barcelona Symphony...

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The title of the paper translates as 'The First Sailors on the Hight Seas, an Account of the Phoenician Navigators and their Vessels'.

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The documents also include the cover and several other pages from the edition of 'Vesmir'.

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For reviews of 'Heavenly Clockwork' see SCC2/108.

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For reviews of 'Heavenly Clockwork' see SCC2/108.

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For reviews of 'Heavenly Clockwork' see SCC2/108.

Scope and Contents From the Series: These documents relate to the monograph 'Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China - A Missing Link in Horological History' written by Joseph Needham, Wang Ling and Derek J. Price. It was published in 1960 by Cambridge University Press in Association with the Antiquarian Horology Society. Material from this publication was also used in 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 4, Part 2', hence its inclusion amongst the 'Science and Civilisation in China'...

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The correspondence is particularly related to the story of Wan Hu, a Chinese official who supposedly attempted rocket flight in the 16th century. The documents comprise 5 letters from Hokes; 3 postcards from Hokes; copy of 1 letter of reply from Needham; copy of an article by Hokes on rockets published in the Czech journal 'New Orient'; related photographs from Hokes.

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Pokora's letter states that the review is of the 'three volumes of your Science and Civilisation in China'.

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This book contained:
- 1 typescript letter from E. Gutmann to Joseph Needham, 1 Oct. 1954
- 1 typescript letter from the Editors of Nature to Joseph Needham, 20 Oct. 1954
- 1 page of handwritten notes by Joseph Needham
- 1 carbon typed copy of Joseph Needham's review
- Cutting of Joseph Needham's review published in Nature (No. 613).

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Typed list of points from a lecture given in Prague on 'Contributions of Mediaeval China to Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Instrument Making'; translation of Joseph Needham's lecture notes and Chinese Chronology into Czech; notices in Czech of two lectures given by Joseph Needham.

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Teich's letter also congratulates Joseph Needham on his election as Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

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Piece on the Moravian Exiles, with references to Wren, Ridley and Cambridge. Also includes a short English typescript summary and manuscript notes by Ellis Minns.

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Press cuttings received from agencies (mainly in Czech).

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The documents comprise a letter asking for Joseph Needham's views on his review article written for 'Historica'; copy of the published review entitled 'Dr Joseph Needham, F.R.S. and the volumes I - IV:1'; copy of 'Dejiny a soucasnost' ('History and Present') containing his review of 'Volume 4, Part 1'; letter from Teich to Joseph Needham which accompanied the journal copy.

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Material relating to those with a surname beginning 'W'.