Copies of parts of the typescript draft for the 'Ballistic Machinery' section of 'Science and Civilisation in China', 'xeroxed for Lynn White Festschrift, but not used when Trebuchets only was taken', 1973-05-18 - 1973-10

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/131/6/10

Scope and Contents

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It was Needham's original intention that the whole of the 'Science and Civilisation in China' section on 'Chinese pre-gunpowder artillery' be published in the festschrift. However, the eventual title was 'China's Trebuchets, Manned and Counterweighted'. The festschrift, 'On pre-modern technology and science : a volume of studies in honor of Lynn White, Jr.' was edited by Bert S. Hall and Delno C. West and published in 1976.