“The last few years have produced a rich harvest of map books, so newcomers have to stand tall to win notice.The Mapmakers’ World delivers an ambitious thesis with style. Paper and printing are superb, and the enormous number of colour illustrations make this a many-layered work that includes rarely seen portraits of leading mapmakers, exquisite enlargements of map detail and expositions on the evolution of map-making techniques. I enjoyed being able to compare a medieval cosmography showing a pair of angels rotating the machina mundi using hand-cranks with the complex armillary sphere some 200 pages later by Apianus. This magnificent book is a monument to the effort and ingenuity that Europeans have devoted to understanding the wider world, a quest continuing to this day, and one that still relies on maps.”

“…illustrated in beautifully pin-sharp colour throughout. The book s production values as a whole are exceptional…The reader comes to the end of this beautiful and awe-inspiring book with a profound sense of humility at inheriting the accumulated knowledge of so many who struggled to understand their place in the world.”

The Complex Chinese version of “SISTERS OF SCIENCE” has been listed as Best 10 of Historical Publications of 2015 by “Speaking of Book”, a young and new book reviews platform/ Media in our local market. https://sobooks.tw/【說書】一年一度，嘔心瀝血──2015年十大歷史好/ Below is the rough translation of part of review texts The author places the Intellectual women in the context of history, deeply describe the life of these female scientists  and external pressures they had to face when studying science or doing their research. This title offers the possibility of writing ”her-story” outside the domain of ”history” which focus on men.