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Joseph Needham. Science and Civilization in China. 27 vols. Cambridge: University Press, 1954. There is a handy one-volume ‘‘distillation’’ by Robert Temple, with an introduction by Needham: China, land of discovery. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens, 1986.
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It is said that this work eventually totalled fifty million characters.
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Derek J. de Solla Price has described these instruments in various publications.
The ‘‘Second Temple’’ in Jerusalem had a huge hydraulic organ built in Alexandria. Jewish legend hasitthatatfullpower it couldbeheard alloverthe ancientcity.
I Thessalonians 5:21.
The New Testament writers cite the Septuagint Greek version of the Hebrew Bible frequently. This version was made at the Alexandriana. On occasion the apostle Paul cites Greek writers.
This fascinating historical saga is recounted in L. Alan Eyre. ‘‘Isaac Edmestone Barnes in Kroonstad, Orange River Colony: the troubled life of a black Jamaican mining executive 1903 to 1909’’ in Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, 60(4), 2006, pp. 105–127. Dr. Isaac Barnes was an active member of the worldwide Christadelphian Brethren in Christ (see note 20). In 1889 he founded the congregation in Kingston, Jamaica. Besides his mining interests, Barnes’ many publications ranged over philosophy, biblical exegesis, economics, and activism on behalf of the rights of the world’s black people.
Known as the Grey Collection, donated by a former Governor of Cape Province.
Janos Bolyai was one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry. His most important work was well known in German, but was not translated into English until more than thirty years after his death.
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Ferenc David was a leading figure in the Unitarius Egyhaz, in Transylvania, then an inde-pendent buffer state between the Turks and the Habsburg empire. Like David, many Szeklers were members of the Brethren in Christ, a Bible-oriented religious group with a rationalist, anti-trinitarian, mortalist and anabaptist theology, widely dispersed in Poland, the Ukraine, and elsewhere in Europe. See G. Huntston Williams. The Radical Reformation. Kirkville: Sixteenth Century Journal Publications, 1992; L. Alan Eyre. Brethren in Christ. Adelaide: Christadelphian Scripture Study Service, 1982.
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There were also a very few Turkish and Japanese students registered at the university, but none of these are shown on the photographs.
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I consider the precipitous decline in the numbers of Lampyridae in Jamaica in my lifetime to be a tragedy.
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The same route was used after Chernobyl in 1986. Much of this very informative but deeply disturbing material was put under wraps by ‘‘nuclear lobbies’’ in the USA and other western countries. However, it is not classified and can be found by persistent researchers.
Since the Greenland work was done, Samuel Browning believes that he has discovered an older rock, the Acasta gneiss, north of Yellowknife in Canada (3,900 million years BP). There seemsto besomeprestigefactorinvolved, both nationally and personally, in identifying the world’s oldest rock. See Tjeerd H. van Andel. New Views on an Old Planet. Cambridge: University Press, 1994, p. 257.
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Eyre, A. (2008). Great Libraries in the Service of Science. In: Earnshaw, R., Vince, J. (eds) Digital Convergence – Libraries of the Future. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-903-3_27
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