Description: Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.
Brief description: Gregory Schrempp is associate professor of Folklore, Indiana University (Bloomington), and author of numerous works on comparative cosmology, including Magical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe.
Review Quotes: "[The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science] is a brave, ambitious, and admirable work of scholarship. It has enthralled, perplexed, piqued, entertained, and instructed me in turn. It will appeal to folklorists, anthropologists, ethnologists, readers of cul