This anthology is most welcome and can be enthusiastically recommended to those who wish to know more ofJapanese science in order to achieve a more complete, international coverage of the history of science. Moreover and more importantly, the opportunity of observing a different approach to science, whereby problems that also exercise the West are tackled from a different angle, is of great significance to the modem occidental scientist. Hopefully he may discover new and useful viewpoints. The book is also of value to all historians of science in view of the general papers included, which display fresh points of view. In the next series of essays perhaps it will be possible to include some on the history of medicine.