OFF-PRINTS
Over the years, Dr. Needham amassed a unique and extremely valuable collection of off-prints, many of them unpublished. Now housed according to subject in some 650 box-files, and amounting to over 20,000 items, it is a veritable treasure-trove for visiting scholars. The sections on astronomy, alchemy and medicine are very comprehensive for western language works up to the middle of the 1980's, while other sections contain unpublished manuscripts and translations relevant to the history of Chinese science. There are also many interesting items concerning modern science in China during the 2nd World War, collected by Dr. Needham during his time in Chungking. The collection continues to be enriched constantly by monographs sent in by scholars from around the world.
Access to the off-prints is on-site only