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OBITUARY:Joseph Needham
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With the death of Joseph Needham the world of learning has lost
one of the greatest scholars in this or any country, of this or any
century.
For more than 30 years Needham had been the greatest Sinologist
in the West, having previously achieved an international status as
a research biochemist and as a historian of more than science.
Intellectually a bridge- builder between science, religion and
Marxist socialism, and supremely so between East and West, he has
been called the Erasmus of...
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Birth of Joseph Needham.(Brief Article)
History Today
; December 9th, 1900 Joseph Needham was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable scholars, a biochemist and authority on the history of science, in particular in China, whose colossal Science and Civilisation in China was published by Cambridge University Press in sixteen volumes from 1954 on.
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Joseph Needham and Scott Needham of Princeton Air Conditioning Inc. (Princeton, N.J.) have been selected.(awards)(Brief Article)
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News
; Joseph Needham and Scott Needham of Princeton Air Conditioning Inc. (Princeton, N.J.) have been selected as United States Small Business Association's 2005 New Jersey Small Business Persons of the Year.
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Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China: The Social Background, General Conclusions and Reflections, vol. 7, part 2.(Book review)
China Review International
; Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 7, The Social Background. Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections. Edited by Kenneth Girdwood Robinson, with contributions by Ray Huang. Introduction by Mark Elvin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. li, 283 pp. Hardcover
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OBITUARIES: Joseph Needham
The Independent - London
; Some 30 years ago Joseph Needham told me he had received the rare honour of two "philosophic names" given him by Chinese friends, writes Professor John Dancy {further to the obituary by Professor Mansel Davies, 27 March}. "When I was young they gave me `The Chemical Blast- Furnace'. Now that I am
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OBITUARY:Joseph Needham
The Independent - London
; As the only Western colleague whom Joseph Needham ever took with him to China, I had the unique opportunity to witness an "honorary Taoist", as he called himself, in his adopted land, writes Robert Temple {further to the obituary by Professor Mansel Davies, 27 March}. While we were there, Needham,
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