The Science and Civilisation in China series is the work of Joseph Needham and an international team of collaborators, and is published by Cambridge University Press in seven volumes.
Hosted by UCC, CELT is Ireland's longest running Humanities Computing project. It has a searchable online textbase consisting of over 15.6 million words, in 1323 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts.
Manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts complete this amazing collection - all the result of the collecting activities of one man - Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968).