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Tracing the Origins of the “Mechanical View of Nature”—The Most Classic Whiggish Internal History of Science (A Review of *The Mechanization of the World Picture*)

History of Science & Scholarship2010.12.19
Tracing the Origins of the “Mechanical View of Nature”—The Most Classic Whiggish Internal History of Science (A Review of *The Mechanization of the World Picture*)
I suddenly realized that I still hadn’t posted this article…… This piece was originally supposed to appear in Dushu Bao, but by some strange twist of fate it somehow ended up being published in Zhongguo Tushu Shangbao, and I don’t know exactly how much was cut from it. To this day I still haven’t seen the newspaper or the fee…… I’m told that in the next couple of days I’ll be rewriting it and submitting a new version to senior brother Bu Tian…… If I’m going to revise it, I might as well revise it more thoroughly—why not try a different line of thought and rewrite it from scratch?…… It’s…
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2010年12月19日
Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship

AI & the Future of Technology2010.12.14
Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship
WordPress-based blogs have countless advantages: backup functionality, easy maintenance, a wide range of mode choices, and abundant room for expansion. Apart from the legendary drawback that they seem to consume comparatively more server resources, they are really beyond criticism. For me, apart from the crucial ability to be backed up, WordPress also offers another crucial revolution compared with the Yaiku blog: namely, a revolution in the way categories are arranged. This revolution looks trivial at first glance: it is simply a shift from the original linear, segmented model to a many-to-many correspondence. In other words, on Yaiku, each post belongs to, and belongs only to, one folder, whereas under the…
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2010年12月14日
Civilization History as History of Science—A Review of Sarton’s Ancient Science in the Golden Age of Greece

History of Science & Scholarship2010.10.24
Civilization History as History of Science—A Review of Sarton’s Ancient Science in the Golden Age of Greece
As the founder of the discipline of the history of science, George Sarton was the first generation of professional historians of science, and he is by no means unfamiliar to scholars in China. In 2007, Jiang Xiaoyuan and Liu Bing edited Sarton’s History of Science Series, bringing Sarton’s ideas on historiography into the Chinese context in a comprehensive way. One of the monumental representative works that reflects Sarton’s achievements in the history of science, Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece, has also recently been introduced by Xiangxiang Press. Regarding Sarton’s value, the translator Lu Xudong says in the preface: “Anyone reading the history of science cannot but read…
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2010年10月24日
Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-10-24

Life & Notes2009.10.24
Notes from Today’s New Island Salon 09-10-24
Today I again sent out emails inviting the members of the “Science and Outlook on Life” group, but the result was still that almost no one came. Aside from Xiaozhou, there was one more group member, Mist, who showed up to lend support; quite a few old friends of the salon did come, though. I had a cold, so today I was in a rather listless state throughout. Fortunately, Xiaozhou and jr saved the day, so the salon did not end up with nothing to say at all. At first in the afternoon there were only four of us: me, B, M, and Xiaozhou. Seeing that no one was likely…
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2009年10月24日
What, Exactly, Is the Scientific Revolution?

History of Science & Scholarship2009.01.13
What, Exactly, Is the Scientific Revolution?
This semester has finally ended~~ The topic of this essay does not particularly satisfy me. What on earth is the Scientific Revolution? — A critique of Shapin’s “No Scientific Revolution” claim “The Scientific Revolution”—referring specifically to that stretch of history around the seventeenth century, “from Copernicus to Newton”—has been the greatest focus of history of science research since Koyré, and the literature commenting on this “Scientific Revolution” from different perspectives and lines of inquiry is so abundant as to be immeasurable. Yet in the opening of his famous book The Scientific Revolution, Steven Shapin drops a bombshell: “There was no Scientific Revolution, and this book is about that.”[1] So, how…
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2009年1月13日
Why Do I Need Ethics? — An Unconventional Introductory Book on Ethics

Philosophy & Thought2008.11.02
Why Do I Need Ethics? — An Unconventional Introductory Book on Ethics
This is an article written for submission. Although this was the first time I ever submitted anything truly of my own free will and initiative (see https://yilinhut.net/2008/09/21/2750.html), it was still awkwardly written. And because no word limit had been agreed on, it is obviously too long; if it were published in some other medium, it would certainly be excerpted, and that would depend on the editor’s deft touch. Whether it is published or not, I am posting the original text on the blog; please do not repost it before the final version appears. Why Do I Need Ethics? — An Unusual Introductory Reader on Ethics Gu Chi With the bestseller…
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2008年11月2日
[US] Jacques Thillo, Keith C. Lassman: Ethics and Life (9th Edition)

Philosophy & Thought2008.10.01
[US] Jacques Thillo, Keith C. Lassman: Ethics and Life (9th Edition)
[US] Jacques Thirou, Keith Klusmann: Ethics and Life (9th Edition), translated by Cheng Lixian, Liu Jian, et al., reviewed by Zhou Fucheng, World Book Publishing Company, August 2008, 58 yuan Not recommended. Although I only flipped through it for about half an hour before putting it aside. But I can confirm that this book is not to my taste. First let’s look at the promotional slip attached to the cover (what is the technical term for this thing?): “On February 2, 2006, the very day the revised manuscript of the ninth edition of this book was completed, Professor Jacques Thirou suddenly passed away, leaving the world this labor-of-love work that…
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2008年10月1日
A Tour Guide to the Mathematical World — “Two-Dimensional at Home and Abroad”

History of Science & Scholarship2008.06.26
A Tour Guide to the Mathematical World — “Two-Dimensional at Home and Abroad”
This is the first time I’ve been invited to write and submit a book review, and in the spirit of this year’s Guangdong College Entrance Examination essay topic, I took on the task~ Writing an article for submission is painful. That piece “A Brief Talk on the Popularization of Philosophy,” though it was published too, had been written rather casually at the time; writing specifically for submission really was a first for me, and it seems I’m still not quite suited to it. Ideally I could have written it better, but on the one hand I was rushing to finish it before my graduation trip, and on the other hand…
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2008年6月26日
The Mathematics Circle Series, Hunan Science and Technology Press, June 2007

History of Science & Scholarship2007.07.29
The Mathematics Circle Series, Hunan Science and Technology Press, June 2007
The Mathematics Circle series, Hunan Science and Technology Press, June 2007 ([U.S.] H. W. Eves: Mathematics Circle 1, Mathematics Circle 2, Mathematics Circle 3, translated by Li Yong, 32.5 yuan + 38.5 yuan + 38.5 yuan; [British] Marcus du Sautoy: The Music of the Primes, translated by Sun Weikun, 36 yuan; [U.S.] Edward Berger, Michael Starbird: Mathematical Jamboree, translated by Tang Lu and Fu Xue, 28 yuan) I happened to be in a state of mental excitement when I saw this series, and after casually flipping through a few pages of Mathematics Circle 2, I bought it. Now I feel somewhat regretful—this really is a distinctive kind of math storybook,…
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2007年7月29日
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.20
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science
This book review assignment was due today, and the other book I had originally chosen still wasn’t finished reading; it seemed I wouldn’t have time, so I dug out this thinner book I had read before and wrote up a filler submission. If the TA is willing to wait a few more days, I might write another book review and hand that in instead…… G•E•R•Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle, translated by Sun Xiaochun, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2004 Ancient Greece is the source and beginning of science. There is no doubt that research on the history of science and technology in ancient Greece is of…
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2007年5月20日