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Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

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Chemical Observations and Related Notes

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5978
Scope and Contents

A series of descriptions of, and observations on, various chemical experiments, fos 1-67, with an index at fos 77v-79r. This is followed by medical recipes written in another hand, fos 68-76 and 84v, the last of which is dated 1706. On fo. 1 in the second hand is 'John Fry / Wooburne / Beddfordshire', and opposite in the same hand 'Hic Liber est meus'. Most of the versos are blank. Loose in the book are accounts on a slip of paper dated 6 April [17]74.

Dates: 1700-1774 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chemistry: Correspondence relating to the posthumous publication of 'History of Chemistry' by Professor James Riddick Partington (1886-1965) of Cambridge, 1970 - 1981

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/225
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1970 - 1981
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Cours de chymie, Late seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.53
Scope and Contents

'Cours de chymie. Joan: Francis: Vigani. Veronensis': contains directions for compounding chemical preparations. Towards the end of the volume are miscellaneous notes and presecriptions.

Dates: Late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Francis William Aston: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8322
Scope and Contents Aston's research papers consist of four notebooks recording work on positive rays, 1911-1913, and a few unidentified manuscript calculations. His time at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough is documented by reports on his work submitted to the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1917-1919 and a humorous account of wartime activities at Farnborough by an unidentified author. Publications material consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of a small number of Aston's publications,...
Dates: 1901-1945 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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George Crabbe: Notebooks on entomology, botany and chemistry

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4190-4192, 4194
Dates: 1792-1817
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Joseph Needham's lectures on alchemy, 1969-01-27 - 1973-04

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/183
Scope and Contents The documents comprise papers relating to the 'Louis Rapkine lecture' given in Paris on 17 April 1970 on 'Artisans et Alchimistes en Chine et dans le Monde Hellenistique'; the 'J D Bernal lecture', given at Birbeck College, London, on 'The Refiner's Fire; the Enigma of Alchemy in East and West'. The lectures were both based on the 'first part of the main introduction to the volume of 'Science and Civilisation in China' on the history of alchemy and early chemistry'...
Dates: 1969-01-27 - 1973-04
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'Late notes' for 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 4', 1968-11-21 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/208
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1968-11-21 - 1979
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Minutes and officers's files of the New Pythagoreans, 1929 - 1992

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.95
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

Dates: 1929 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Minutes of conjoint meetings of Special Boards for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, and Biology and Geology, 1885 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.V.44
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Management Group:

Minutes of Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, may cover governance, appointments, budgets, curriculum development, examining and accommodation.

Dates: 1885 - 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Minutes of speaker meetings of the Cambridge University Chemical Society, signed, 1960 - 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.97
Scope and Contents

The minutes give detailed accounts of lectures and are frequently accompanied by diagrams. The speaker meetings were often held as joint meetings with the Chemical Society (London) or the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

Dates: 1960 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Minutes of the Faculty Board of Physics and Chemistry, predecessor and subordinate bodies, 1882 - 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.V.83-8 etc
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Management Group:

Minutes of Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, may cover governance, appointments, budgets, curriculum development, examining and accommodation.

Dates: 1882 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: This material is closed to scholars for 50 years from the date of creation as a condition of transfer.
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Miscellaneous Notes, c 1670-c 1680

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3974
Scope and Contents

On gems and other subjects.

Dates: c 1670-c 1680
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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Nei Tan [内丹/ Nei Dan]: Correspondence with 章鍾蘭 [Chang Chung-Lan / Zhang Zhonglan / Jolan Chang] and others, 1970 - 1990-07-26

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/220
Scope and Contents

Chang is the author of the 'The Tao of Love and Sex: The Ancient Chinese Way to Ecstacy', (London, 1977).

Dates: 1970 - 1990-07-26
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Nei Tan [内丹/ Nei Dan]: Fremantle Lectures, Balliol College, Oxford, 1971, 1968-03-20 - 1972-07

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/218
Scope and Contents

The title of this series of lectures given by Joseph Needham during January and February 1971 was 'Science and Religion in Chinese Culture; the Elixir and Enchymoma'.

Dates: 1968-03-20 - 1972-07
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Nei Tan [内丹/ Nei Dan]: Radhakrishnan Lectures, Oxford University, 1981, 1953-01-27 - 1981

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/219
Scope and Contents

The title of this series of 4 lectures given by Joseph Needham during February and March 1981 was 'Indian Yoga and Chinese Inner Alchemy'.

Dates: 1953-01-27 - 1981
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Nei Tan [内丹/ Nei Dan]: The Outer and the Inner Macrobiogens; Elixir and Enchymoma, 1899 - 1994-04-23

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/213
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1899 - 1994-04-23
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Nomenclature of chemical substances, ores and minerals in the old Chinese literature, 1950 - 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/188
Scope and Contents

The documents relate to the preparation of Table 95 of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 2'.

Dates: 1950 - 1973
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Notes of Experiments, all in Newton's Hand, 1670-1700

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3973
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.

Dates: 1670-1700
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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Paper by Ho Peng-Yoke and Joseph Needham entitled 'The Laboratory Equipment of the Early Mediaeval Chinese Alchemists', ('Ambix', 1959), 1958 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/198
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1958 - 1959
 Sub-Fonds

Papers of the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, 1964 - 1997

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PC
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Management Group:

The category - Teaching, learning and research records - comprises records relating to curriculum delivery and examination, further research and the award of degrees; also such adjuncts to study as laboratories, the Botanic Garden and University Library.

Dates: 1964 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: This material is closed to scholars for 50 years from the date of creation as a condition of transfer to the University Archives. Additionally, Degree and Appointments Committees papers are closed for 80 years under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
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Peter Mitchell papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mitchell (Peter)
Scope and Contents

Comprised of biographical materials, material related to Mitchell's daily work at the Glynn Research Institute, research material (including material from Mitchell's collaborators), publications, lectures and broadcasts, documentation of Mitchell's involvement with various societies and organisations, material related to visits and conferences, and a large selection of Mitchell's correspondence.

Dates: 1940-1994
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ronald Norrish: Papers and Correspondence

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8370
Scope and Contents This small group of papers represents all that survives of the manuscript records of this distinguished chemist and Nobel Prize winner. It consists of correspondence received by Dainton and Thrush while they were working on the Royal Society memoir of Norrish, a few school and undergraduate diaries and notebooks, and some rather miscellaneous notes, drafts and correspondence. These include a complete draft for a very early (1922) unpublished paper 'Colour and Atomic Constitution ...' and...
Dates: 1912-1981 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 2': Concepts, Terminology, and Definitions; Aurifiction, Aurifaction, Macrobiotics, 1950 - 1990

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/184
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1950 - 1990
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'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 2': Concepts, Terminology, and Definitions: Liturgy and Alchemy, 1950 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/186
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1950 - 1978
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'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 2': Concepts, Terminology, and Definitions: Material Immortality, Macrobiotics and Soma (Wasson) etc., 1949-04 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/185
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1949-04 - 1979
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