de Solano -- Science for political purposes : European explorations of the Pacific Ocean, 1764-1806 / Alan Frost -- Seapower and science : the motives for Pacific exploration / Daniel A. Baugh -- Anthropological analysis of exploration texts : cultural discourse and the ethnological import of Fray Marcos de Niza's journey to Cibola / Daniel T. Reff -- Silences and secrets : the hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe / J.B. Harley -- English charting of the River Amazon c. 1595- c. 1630 / Sarah Tyacke -- The influence of Father Ricci on Far Eastern cartography / Helen Wallis -- Amerindian contributions to the mapping of North America : a preliminary view / Louis De Vorsey -- Indicators of unacknowledged assimilations from Amerindian maps on Euro-American maps of North America : some general principles arising from the study of La Verendrye's composite map, 1728-29 / G. Malcolm Lewis -- Ayurvedic medicine in Goa according to European sources in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / John M. de Figueiredo -- The pre-history of modern science in Japan : the importation of Western science during the Tokugawa period / Yabuuti Kiyosi -- Chinese astronomy and the Jesuit mission : an encounter of cultures / Joseph Needham -- Western mathematics and China, seventeenth century and nineteenth century / Catherine Jami -- Ottomans and European science / Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.