Gunpowder: First East Asian History of Science Foundation Lecture, Hong Kong, 20 October 1983, 1983 - 1986-01-30

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/160

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The East Asian History of Science Foundation was set up to provide support towards Joseph Needham's aim of building a permanent research centre in Cambridge. The first lecture was entitled 'Gunpowder as the Fourth Power, East and West'. It was published by Hong Kong University Press as a monograph in 1985.