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List of Authors LIST OF AUTHORS George Abraham Annanagar, Madras, India Gnomon in India BaJa Achi National Museum, Abuja, Nigeria Construction Techniques in Africa Michael Adas Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A. Colonialism and Science Western Dominance: Western Science and Technology in the Construction ofldeologies of Colonial Dominance Samuel A.M. Adshead Department of History, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Salt Bilal Ahmad Department of Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. Ibn Ba~!iJ~a S.M. Ahmad AI Al-Bayt University, Jubayha, Amman, Jordan Ibn Khurdadhbih Ibn Majid al-Idrisi Mansour So lyman ai-Said Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, )<.lng Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Medicine in Islam Claude Alvares The Other India Bookstore, Goa, India Irrigation in India and Sri Lanka Technology and Culture Mehdi Aminrazavi Department of Philosophy, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Gene Ammarell Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, U.S.A. Astronomy in the Indo-Malay Archipelago Munawar A. Anees Periodica Islamica, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Ibn Z:uhr Tian Se Ang Department of Language Studies, Faculty of Arts, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, Western Australia Acupuncture Five Phases (Wuxing) Sun Zi Wang Xiaotong Xiahou Yang Xu Yue ZuChongzhi Charles Anyinam Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Medicine in Africa Roger Arnaldez Paris, France Ibn Butlan R.K. Arora International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India Agriculture in India Bernardo Arriaza Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. Mummies in South America Marcia Ascher Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. Ethnomathematics Quipu Robert Ascher Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. Quipu Kamel Arifin Mohd A tan Department of Mathematics, University of Agriculture Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia Algebra in Islamic Mathematics George Atiyeh Library of Congress, Near East Section, Washington, DC, U.S.A. al-Kindi 1063 1064 LIST OF AUTHORS A. V. Balasubramanian Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, Madras, India Knowledge Systems in India Metallurgy in India Yoga Thomas J. Bassett Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. Maps and Mapmaking in Africa Frances Berdan Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino, California, U.S.A. Aztec Science Kenneth J.E. Berger San Diego, California, U.S.A. Environment and Nature: China Bruce Berndt Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A. Ramanujan Richard Bertschinger Montacute, Somerset, England Huangdi Netjing Medical Texts in China Nanji11g Qia11jin Yaof"ang Shangha11 Lw1 Tangren Zhenjiu Shuxue T!Jjing Zhenjiu Dacheng Zhcnj i u jia_1·iji ng Lucie Bolens Faculty of Letters, Department of General History, University of Geneva, Switzerland Agriculture in the Islamic World Irrigation in the Islamic World Annie L. Booth Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada Environment and Nature: Native North America Ahmed Bouzid Center for the Study of Science in Society, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. al-Farghanl Francesca Bray Manchester University, Manchester, England Agriculture in China Sonja Brentjes Karl-Sudhoff-Institut, Universitat Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Elements- Reception of Euclid's Elements in the Islamic World al-Jawhari al-Nayrfzf David Browman Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Environment and Nature: the Andes David M. Browne Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales Nazca Lines Viggo Brun East Asian Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Medicine in Thailand Amriah Buang Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia Geography in the Islamic World Anthony R. Butler Department of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland Chemistry in China Charles Butterworth Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A. Ibn Khaldun Cai J~ngfeng China Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China Chinese Medicine Medicine in China: Forensic Medicine Emilia Calvo Department of Arabic Philology, University of Barcelona, Spain Abu' l-Fida' al-Damfrf Ibn al-Banna' LIST OF AUTHORS 1065 Ibn al-Bay!iir Ibn al-Zarqallu Ibn I:Iawqal Ibn Juljul Ibn Tibbon Ibn Wafid al-Majrl!( Yal:lya ibn Abl Man~ilr Vicki Cassman Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. Mummies in South America Jose Chabas Brussels, Belgium Zacut, Abraham A.K. C~akravarty Department of Mathematics, Mahishadal Raj College, Midnapore, West Bengal, India Calendars in India Sami Chalhoub Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, Syria Trigonometry in Islamic Mathematics D.P. Chattopadhyaya Project of History of Indian Science. Philosophy and Culture, Calcutta, India Environment and Nature: Indian Karine Chemla Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS), Histoire des Sciences, Paris, France; and Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Gennany Siyuan Yujian Suanxue Qimeng Zhu Shijie Joseph Chen Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, U.S.A. Acoustics in Chinese Culture Magnetism in Chinese Culture Weihang Chen Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Yinyang Religion and Science in China S. Terry Childs Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.A. Metallurgy in Africa William C. Chittick Department of Comparative Studies, Program in Religious Studies, State University ofNew York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A. Ibn al-'Arabl W.C. Clarke Eumundi, Queensland, Australia Agriculture in the Pacific Agroforestry in the Pacific Michael P. Closs University of Ottawa, Department of Mathematics, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Mathematics in Native North America Mathematics of the Aztecs Mathematics of the Maya Christopher Cullen Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, England; and Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studes, London, England Clocks: Astronomical Clocks in China Gaitian Huntian Zhoubi Suanjing Zou Yan Roger B. Culver Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. Astronomy Ahmad Dallal $adr al-Sharl'ah Ubiratan D'Ambrosio University ofCampinas, Cidade Universitaria 'Zeferina Vaz', Campinas, Brazil Colonialism and Science in the Americas Americas: Native American Science 1066 LIST OF AUTHORS Bhagwan Dash Ayurveda Rasashala Clinic, Delhi, India Alchemy in India A trey a Caraka Medicine in India: Ayurveda Susruta Joseph W. Dauben City University of New York, Herbert H. Lehman College, Bronx, New York, U.S.A. The Gougu Theorem William Davenport University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Maps and Mapmaking: Marshall Island Stick Charts Jean Debernardi Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Time in Chinese Thought Catherine Delano Smith Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, England Maps and Mapmaking in Asia (Prehistoric) P.N. Desai University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Medical Ethics in India Gregg DeYoung Science Department, American University in Cairo, Egypt Astronomy in Egypt Calendars in Egypt al-f:Iajjaj Jkhwan al-!fafa' Is~aq ibn f:Iunayn Maragha Metallurgy in Egypt Mummies in Egypt Observatories in the Islamic World Pyramids Qadi Zadeh ai-Rumi al-Samarqandi Textiles in Egypt Alnoor Dhanani Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Atomism in Islamic Thought Ahmed Djebbar Garches, France Combinatorics in Islamic Mathematics Ibn a!-Yasamln Mathematics of Africa: Maghreb al-Qala~adi Yvonne Dold-Samplonius Institute of Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Germany Abii'l-Wara' al-Mahanl al-Quhi ai-Sijzi Sinan ibn Thabit Salimata Doumbia lnstitut de Recherches Mathematiques, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire Mathematics in Africa: West African Games Laurence R. Doyle SET! Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, U.S.A. Astronomy in Africa Ashok Dutt Department of Geography, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, U.S.A. Geography in India Gloria T. Emeagwali History Department, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, U.S.A. Colonialism and Science in Africa Textiles in Africa J. Worth Estes Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mas­ sachusetts, U.S.A. Medicine in Egypt Nina Etkin Anthropology Department, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Medicinal Food Plants LIST OF AUTHORS 1067 Gillian R. Evans History Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England Abacus Harmut Fahndrich Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Bern, Switzerland Ibn Jumay• Richard Feinberg Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, U.S.A. Navigation in Polynesia Feng Li-sheng Institute for the History of Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhehot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Chinese Minorities Edward W: Frank Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. Astronomy
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