Suixuan

标签：Needham

When Reading Joseph Needham, Do Not “Buy the Casket and Return the Pearl” — A Review of *The Titration of Civilization*

History of Science & Scholarship2017.03.26
When Reading Joseph Needham, Do Not “Buy the Casket and Return the Pearl” — A Review of *The Titration of Civilization*
Titrating Civilization: Science and Society in East and West This book review was written last November. It was commissioned, but after I submitted it there was no response. I only asked about it recently and learned that it had not been used, so I’m posting it here first and then I’ll look for somewhere else to submit it~ Before Brother Bo Tianshi translated The Grand Titration, I had long heard of this book and read some introductions to it, but I never quite understood what the titration business was all about. Only after reading it myself did I begin to make some sense of it, and I feel it…
book reading China science history of science
阅读全文

2017年3月26日
Compendium of Recommended Readings for a General History of Science

History of Science & Technology2015.06.19
Compendium of Recommended Readings for a General History of Science
A selection of recommended books at hand above ↑ (the missing ones are all those I’ve no idea where I stuffed them, so I haven’t found them for the moment…) General history category, overall recommendations: Wu Guosheng: 《The Course of Science》——I’ve put my advisor’s book in the first place. Among books by domestic authors on the same subject, this one is still the best, but after all it was first published quite early, and now it does have quite a few shortcomings. McClellan, 《A General History of Science and Technology in the World》——A rather standard general history of science, at least much better than Dampier’s, with the highlight being the…
history of science course Kuhn Copernicus
阅读全文

2015年6月19日
Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 6: Special Topics in the History of Chinese Science

History of Science & Technology2015.04.09
Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 6: Special Topics in the History of Chinese Science
This time we are treating the history of Chinese science as a special topic. This subject does not lie within the lineage of Western science, so it is relatively difficult to discuss: there is a great deal of material on the history of Chinese science, but it is itself very scattered, and it is hard to summarize or to筛选 out what counts as core content. So this class may also be relatively free-ranging; what I mainly select are some points that can be set in contrast with the formation of Western science. We know that ancient China achieved a great many scientific accomplishments. Our primary and secondary education, as well…
China history of science course Scientific Revolution
阅读全文

2015年4月9日
Four Ways of Understanding the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific

History of Science & Scholarship2006.03.04
Four Ways of Understanding the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
The topic of whether Chinese medicine is scientific involves far too much; every one of the “small topics” involved is big enough in itself! Before talking about it, it may be worth reflecting a little first. On what understanding of the question itself does one actually base one’s discussion? If everyone is approaching it from different points of focus and discussing the issue from their own angles, it is very easy to get tangled up. I think that, regarding “whether Chinese medicine is scientific,” there are at least four different perspectives: The first angle is something like asking whether psychology is scientific, whether astrology is scientific, whether the ancient Chinese…
culture science philosophy of science Tian Song
阅读全文

2006年3月4日
Medicine and Science—A Reflection on the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.28
Medicine and Science—A Reflection on the Question of Whether Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Scientific
Reflecting on the question of whether Chinese medicine is scientific, I found myself, quite involuntarily, drawn into the dispute over whether there was science in ancient China. That is not really off the point; many articles discussing whether there was science in ancient China also mention Chinese medicine. However, getting caught up in the discussion of Needham’s problem is not the only way to approach the question “Is Chinese medicine scientific?” In fact, even those who believe there was science in ancient China may still think Chinese medicine is “unscientific,” or at least “not scientific enough.” In discussing whether Chinese medicine is scientific, because of a difference in perspective, another…
China science history of science traditional Chinese medicine
阅读全文

2006年2月28日
Liu Huajie: “Not Everything Enshrined in the Hall Is a Buddha” (Including Some Free Thoughts on Needham’s Question)

History of Science & Scholarship2006.02.27
Liu Huajie: “Not Everything Enshrined in the Hall Is a Buddha” (Including Some Free Thoughts on Needham’s Question)
Liu Huajie: “What Is Offered in the Hall Is Not All Buddha,” Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, January 2004 This is one of Liu teacher’s more recent personal essay collections, and it is just as interesting as ever. These books are all to be read as “novels.” I noticed that in the essay “The Influence of Cultural Traditions on Science,” Liu teacher responds to Mr. Qi Zesong’s argument that “the rise of modern science has little to do with, or nothing to do with, Greek civilization.” Liu teacher points out: “The emergence of modern science was not merely a simple process of accumulating specific bodies of knowledge; it is more likely…
book reading culture notes history of science
阅读全文

2006年2月27日