's edited volume grew from presentations made at two conferences, 'Science and Warfare in the Old Regime' in 1998 and 'Colonels and Quartermasters' in 1999. The editors, by collecting these works, are trying to correct what they see as a lack of attention paid to the historical relationship between military technology and science; what attention it has received places it in the 20th, possibly the 19th century, whereas Steele and Dorland see this relationship emerging much earlier, with a significant flowering after the Renaissance. They introduce the collection by claiming, as did Voltaire, that this relationship extends as far back as the time of Archimedes, and then they shed light on that classical beginning. Through the succeeding essays, they hope to answer the question 'In short, when did Archimedes have real intellectual heirs who recreated for themselves his personal union of science and the art of war?' [3]. That brings up a key point of this book, particularly in regard to its title: despite the introduction, the focus of the book is firmly on the 'Heirs' and not on 'Archimedes'. The introduction gives an excellent, concise, historical, and historiographical account of the science-military connection. I found that some parts of this introduction, though, lead the reader down the wrong path by creating some expectations of discussions that never occur in the collected essays (nor should they, I have also come to believe). In describing Archimedes' intermingling of science and war, the editors provide a framework, accompanied by a diagram, that maps connections, decisions, and/or movements made by Archimedes. Steele and Dorland draw on modern terminology to write sentences such as 'For Archimedes, the science of mechanics may have
