• Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham CH FRS FBA (/ˈniːdəm/; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist...
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    The following is a list of the Four Great Inventions—as designated by Joseph Needham (1900–1995), a British scientist, author and sinologist known for his...
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    the early Western work in the history of science in China was done by Joseph Needham and his Chinese partner, Lu Gwei-djen. The Warring States period began...
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  • Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Esso Petroleum Company Limited 1966 Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization East Asian Studies...
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    modern science in colonial India. They also edited a volume together on Joseph Needham (Situating the History of Science, 1999), the section on "Science in...
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    East Asia. The institute is named after the biochemist and historian Joseph Needham, who initiated the Science and Civilisation in China series. The current...
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    S2CID 171017315. Needham, Joseph (1959). Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-521-05801-8. Needham, Joseph; Wang...
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  • Joseph Needham (9 January 1862 – 30 August 1889) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1883. Needham was born in Priestcliffe, Derbyshire...
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    Science and Civilisation in China (category Joseph Needham)
    Press. It was initiated and edited by British historian Joseph Needham (1900–1995). Needham was a well-respected scientist before undertaking this encyclopedia...
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    ISBN 0-521-30358-3 Needham, Joseph (1994), Science and Civilization in China Volume 5 Part 6, Cambridge University Press Needham, Joseph (2008), Science...
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  • The Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science and Civilisation (李約瑟漢學教授席位) is the senior[citation needed] professorship of Chinese at the...
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    Joseph Needham, A History of Embryology, Cambridge 1959, pp. 27-31. James Wilberding, "Plato's Embryology," Early Science and Medicine 2015. Joseph Needham...
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    "Master Who Embraces Simplicity") mentioned a flying vehicle in what Joseph Needham calls "truly an astonishing passage". Some have made flying cars [feiche...
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    by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, 2009 Joseph Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, pp. 473–5 Joseph Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, p. 165 Donald Routledge Hill...
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    translation of the early 9th century. Thus, as late as 1965, the sinologist Joseph Needham suspected Arab interpolation. However, Carra de Vaux, author of the...
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    metal barrel gunpowder weapons have been described as "proto-guns" Joseph Needham defined a type of firearm known as the "eruptor," which he described...
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  • Joseph Needham (March 23, 1876 – April 8, 1953) was a Saskatchewan politician, clergyman and public administrator. Needham was born in Bramhall, Cheshire...
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    ISBN 0-521-05802-3 Needham, Joseph and Ronan, Colin A. (1986) The shorter Science and civilization in China: an abridgment of Joseph Needham's original text...
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    technology historians, including Bertrand Gille, Andrea Matthies, and Joseph Needham, is that the wheelbarrow was invented in China around 100 AD and spread...
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    Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Hsing-Tsung, Huang (2000). Joseph Needham: Science and Civilisation in China, Vol.6, Part 5. Cambridge University...
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    of Da-han, and it is also located to the east of China (according to Joseph Needham, Da-han corresponds to the Buriat region of Siberia). Hui Shen arrived...
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    Chinese historian and sinologist. He was known for his collaboration with Joseph Needham on the history of science and technology in China. Wang Ling was born...
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  • Vice-Admiral Joseph Needham Tayler CB (15 August 1783 – 19 March 1864) was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary...
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    historians, such as the British biochemist, historian, and sinologist Joseph Needham. The clock itself, however, was dismantled by the invading Jurchen army...
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    Wayback Machine Needham, Joseph (1957). "Science and Civilisation in China. Volume II, History of Scientific Thought. Joseph Needham". Isis. 48 (3): 365–367...
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    Tattoo ink Toner Banerji, page 673 Sircar, page 62 Sircar, page 67 Joseph Needham; Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin (11 July 1985). Science and Civilization in China:...
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    p. 141. Needham, Volume 5, Part 7, 447–454. Needham, Volume 5, Part 7, 449–452. Joseph Needham; Gwei-Djen Lu; Ling Wang (1987). Joseph Needham (ed.). Science...
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    Song Yingxing was termed the "Diderot of China" by British historian Joseph Needham. Before the advent of the printing press, encyclopedic works were all...
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    themselves you should constantly eat the inflorescences of the hemp plant." Joseph Needham connected myths about Magu, "the Hemp Damsel", with early Daoist religious...
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    Gaochang in Dzungaria, and in 791 near Ningxia on the Yellow River. Joseph Needham writes that a tributary embassy came to the court of Emperor Taizong...
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