The Japanese and Western science / Masao Watanabe ; translated by Otto Theodor Benfey ; with a foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer and a new epilogue by the author.

Nihonjin to kindai kagaku. English

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

xiv, 141 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Translation of: Nihonjin to kindai kagaku

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Partial contents: From Samurai to scientist : Yamagawa Kenjirō -- Japan studies of foreign teachers in Japan : investigations of the magic mirror -- Theory of varying coefficients of reflections / Robert William Atkinson -- Theory of varying curvature due to the Megebō / William Edward Ayrton, John Perry -- Theory of variation in curvature due to thermal stress / Gustave E. Berson -- Magic-mirror studies by Japanese scientists -- Echo in America : the student annual The makio -- Magic mirror in subsequent years -- Zoologist fascinated by Japan : Edward Sylvester Morse -- Response to a new scientific theory : Darwinism in the early Meiji era -- Biology and the Buddhistic view of the transience of life : Oka Asajirō -- Modern science and the Japanese conception of nature : a sketch.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [133]-135) and index