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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Joseph Needham
Needham was the only child of a Scottish family in London: his father was a doctor and his mother, Alicia Adelaïde Needham née Montgomery (1863-1945) was a composer and music teacher.
Under the Royal Society's direction, Needham was the director of the Sino-British Science Co-operation Office in Chongqing from 1942 to 1946, collaborating with the historian Wang Ling and solidifying his passion for Chinese scientific history.
Joseph Needham and the rise of the West
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 Joseph Needham and the rise of the West
Joseph Needham opened the way, in the West, to academic recognition of the scientific past of China with his encyclopedia Science and Civilisation in China (1954-95).
Joseph Needham was born on 09 December 1900.
Needham received numerous distinctions, among which the Award of the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society in 1968, and the Award of the Bernal Prize of the Society for the Social Studies of Science in 1984.
www.riseofthewest.net /thinkers/needham01.htm   (1295 words)

  
 Introduction to Jesuit Portraits
This is a collection of stories and pictures of 202 Jesuits who lived in the pre-Suppression Society, between 1540 and 1773, and who were considered interesting enough to be survived by portraits.
Tyl = Tylinda, Joseph, S.J. Jesuit Saints and Martyrs
which is maintained by Joseph MacDonnell, S.J. They are the 13 Achimedean semiregular polyhedra.
www.faculty.fairfield.edu /jmac/jp/jpintro.htm   (1209 words)

  
 Science History and Philosophy List 2.
2 The Nazi Attack on International Science by Joseph Needham.
Science in Soviet Russia, edited by Joseph Needham.
Pitt, Joseph C. (Ed) PHILOSOPHY IN ECONOMICS: Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Testability and Explanation in Economics held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979 210 pp.
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