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'.

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'.

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This file is marked RY, indicating that this is a section of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 6' undertaken by Robin Yates.

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This file is marked RY, indicating that this is a section of 'Science and Civilisation in China', undertaken by Robin Yates.

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This file is marked RY, indicating that this is a section of 'Science and Civilisation in China', undertaken by Robin Yates.

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Joseph Needham marked this folder 'L J-P [Lo Jung-Pang / 羅榮邦 / Luo Rongbang], AD [Albert Dien], RY [Robin Yates]. The 'Science and Civilisation in China' volume covering this subject has yet to be published. It is in the process of being written by Robin Yates.

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Lo spent the winter of 1969/1970 in Cambridge working on this section and other areas of military technology. The 'Science and Civilisation in China' volume covering this subject has not been published. It is in the process of being written by Robin Yates.

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Note: The notes in this file are very brief.

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'.

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'.

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'.

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'.

Scope and Contents The documents refer to the discovery of possibly the oldest representation of a hand-gun in the any civilisation. The discovery was made by Robin Yates in June 1985, when visiting the Buddhist cave-temples of Ta-Tsu in Szechuan, China. The discovery is described by Joseph Needham in Appendix A of SCC, Volume 5, Part 7 (See SCC2/152/2), and in a later paper, co-written with Lu Gwei-Djen and Pan Chi-Hsing [潘吉星 / Pan Jixing] of Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, entitled 'The Oldest...