摘要
英国著名学者劳埃德 (GeoffreyLloyd)教授在中国科学院自然科学史研究所首届“竺可桢科学史讲席”上进行了系列讲演 ,通过对古希腊和古代中国科学史的比较研究 ,阐述了他的“新科学史观”。本文试图解读他的这一新史观 ,进而阐发对思考“中国古代有无科学”及“李约瑟难题”等相关问题的启示。
To promote research of the history of science in China,strengthen exchanges between Chinese historians of science and their international colleagues,and to commemorate Professor Zhu Kezhen,founder of modern China's history of science endeavours,the Institute for the History of Natural Science,Chinese Academy of Sciences,has especially established this visiting professorship,with the purpose of inviting on a regular basis leading international historians of science.As the first holder of 'ZHU Kezhen History of Science Visiting Professorship',Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd expressed his view of historiography of the history of science,namely 'New History of Science'.His series of lecture provided an example using comparative study on the history of science,focusing on those natural knowledge and its philosophical interpretations occured in ancient civilizations such as Greece and China.This paper is trying to explain Professor Lloyd's unique view on the history of science,and with this understanding,to review the so-called'Needham's thesis',as well as other related questions about the history of science in ancient China.
出处
《自然辩证法研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2002年第4期58-61,共4页
Studies in Dialectics of Nature
