Westborough
Westborough town (1990 pop. 14,133), Worcester co., E central Mass., on the Assabet River; inc. 1717. The town, which is largely residential, has tool and die making and produces electronic components, pharmaceuticals, computer software and networks systems, and other products. The birthplace of Eli Whitney , the inventor of the cotton gin, is preserved.
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Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China: The Social Background, General Conclusions and Reflections, vol. 7, part 2.(Book review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China...Nakayama Shigeru, and I were nagging Joseph Needham to begin writing the final volume of...toward writing and life. In 1949, Joseph Needham encouraged him to take himself seriously...
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Biography tells secrets of Joseph Needham, his China love affairs
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 9/23/2008; 663 words
; Biography tells secrets of Joseph Needham, his China love affairs LONDON...name for an English intellectual Joseph Needham, is at least a household name...rightly deserved. The man was Joseph Needham, or better known in China, Dr...
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OBITUARY:Joseph Needham
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/27/1995; ; 700+ words
; With the death of Joseph Needham the world of learning has lost one...found close-packed in ranges. Needham matured at Cambridge in the presence...elected Fellows of the Royal Society. Joseph Needham was the only child of a Harley Street...
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China's Greatest Student; The making of Joseph Needham's multi- volume masterpiece.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...27.95 The great Sinologist Joseph Needham (1900- 1995) is a legend for...technology. But it is the famous "Needham question," which asks why the...eccentric British intellectuals. Needham makes a great subject. A Cambridge...
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JOSEPH NEEDHAM, 94; SCIENTIST, SCHOLAR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/26/1995; 601 words
; ...Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, England Joseph Needham, scientist, scholar and authority...eminent biochemist Dr. Dorothy Needham, to whom he was married for...printing and engineering. Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, was born Dec. 9, 1900...
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Birth of Joseph Needham.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; December 9th, 1900 Joseph Needham was one of the twentieth century's...Colombo to Kyoto, Paris and Peking. Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was the only child of Joseph Needham, a Harley Street specialist in anaesthetics...
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China, the West, and World History in Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China(*).
Magazine article from: Journal of World History; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Long before the death of Joseph Needham in 1995 at the age of ninety-four...volume in 1954 by declaring that Needham's project represents "perhaps...special conditions that produced Needham's masterwork, it is unlikely that...
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OBITUARY : Joseph Needham
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/24/1995; ; 700+ words
; When I first met Joseph Needham in 1947 at Unesco...Cambridge, I got to know Needham much better through...inscribed copy of Joseph's book of essays...Christian Marxism, Joseph was not a holy fool...pictures of the aged Needham being carried aloft...
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Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology. Part 6, Medicine.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...volume consists of essays written by Joseph Needham and his longtime collaborator Lu...by the editor, Nathan Sivin. Needham and Lu had intended to write a...They do not include material from Needham's and Lu's book-length study...
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Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Bomb, Book and Compass Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China...Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Joseph Needham towered over the small band of...communes and barefoot doctors, but Joseph Needham just went on and on. We did not...
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Joseph Needham
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joseph Needham , 1900-1995, British biochemist...Bibliography: See M. Goldsmith, Joseph Needham: 20th-Century Renaissance Man (1995...Ghosh, ed., The Life and Works of Joseph Needham (1997); P. Y. Ho, Reminiscence...
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Cooper, Joseph (Elliott Needham)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Cooper, Joseph (Elliott Needham) ( b Bristol, 1912; d 2001). Eng. pianist. London début 1947. Lect.- recitalist, also chairman of popular TV mus. quiz. Assisted Vaughan Williams in adapting pf. conc. to double pf. conc., 1946. OBE 1982.
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Chinese Religions, Daoism and Science in China
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...Daoist spiritual heritage in the Middle Ages. Thus, Joseph Needham argues in Science and Civilization in China (1956...made great strides in the field of biochemistry. Both Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen hold that the medicine named qiushi...
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junk rig
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...disabled as well as the able-bodied. According to Joseph Needham the origins of the junk rig in China go back to about...Shorter Science and Civilisation in China , abridged from Joseph Needham's text (1986). Worcester, G. , The Junks and...
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...generation, and was an attempt to disprove J.T. Needham's and the Comte de Buffon's theory in support of...Infection (1930). Spallanzani is also discussed in Joseph Needham, A History of Embryology (1934; 2d ed. 1959...
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