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Joseph Needham (1900–95)
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With the death of Joseph Needham on 24 March 1995 the world of
learning lost one of
the greatest scholars in this or any country, of this or any century.
For more than thirty
years Needham had been the greatest sinologist in the West, having
previously achieved an
international status as a research biochemist and as a historian.
Intellectually a bridge-builder between science, religion and Marxist
socialism, and supremely so between East
and West, he has been called the Erasmus of the twentieth century. A sober
assessment
suggests that with the passage of time he will be recognized as a
greater figure than the scholar from Rotterdam.
Title: Joseph Needham (1900–95)
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With the death of Joseph Needham on 24 March 1995 the world of
learning lost one of
the greatest scholars in this or any country, of this or any century.
For more than thirty
years Needham had been the greatest sinologist in the West, having
previously achieved an
international status as a research biochemist and as a historian.
Intellectually a bridge-builder between science, religion and Marxist
socialism, and supremely so between East
and West, he has been called the Erasmus of the twentieth century.
A sober
assessment
suggests that with the passage of time he will be recognized as a
greater figure than the scholar from Rotterdam.
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