Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-Western cultures.

Seline's edited volume relevates non-Western interaction between religious and scientific domains of human intellectual history. Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Chinese thinkers have played central roles in pursuing intellec tual inquiry into topics of road human concern. Although copious and nuance d literary collections in Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan languages document non-Western contributions, these primary sources often are inacces sible to Western scholars, creating the false illusion that members of non- Western cultures have offered only marginal contributions to the rigorous i nvestigation of the natural world. This illusion is dispelled thoroughly by a number of excellent articles contained in Seline's volume.