Sugimoto Masayoshi and David L. Swain. Science and culture in traditional Japan: a.d. 600-1854. [No. 6 in the M.I.T. East Asian Science Series, Nathan Sivin, General Editor.] Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1978. xxxvii+498 pp., including appendix (18 pp.), bibliography (24 pp.), and index (58 pp.). Hard cover. No price.