中国科学技术领先于世的时间之我见  

0ur Viewpoint of the Period when China Took the Lead in the World in Science and Technology

作　　者：陆敬严[1] 虞红根[1] 

机构地区：[1]同济大学机械工程系,上海200092

出　　处：《同济大学学报（自然科学版）》1999年第4期445-448,共4页Journal of Tongji University:Natural Science

基　　金：国家自然科学基金!59675087

摘　　要：英国李约瑟博士在《中国科学技术史》前言中提出：中国在公元3世纪到公元13世纪或15世纪，科学技术领先于世界，有的著作也采用了这种说法．以后李约瑟博士又提出了其他一些观点．反映他及人们对这一问题的关心．作者认为，中国科学技术领先于世的时间，应是从秦汉到明代中叶这段时期，大约是公元前3世纪到公元15世纪．文中阐述了形成这一看法的根据，并提出先进与落后不是一成不变的，中华民族能创造光辉的未来．In the preface to his work 《Science and Civilization in China》, England Doctor Joseph Needham Pointed out that China took the lead in the world in science and technology from the third century to the thirteenth or fifteenth century. This Point of view was also adopted in some other works. He also put forward a few other viewpomints afterwards. It reflected that Doctor Needham and other scholare had interests in this question. The authors thought tLhat the period when China took the lead in the world in science and technology should be from the Qing and Han Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, or about the third century B. C. to A. D. the fifteenth century. The bases supporting this point of view were expounded in this paper. The authors also pointed out that advanced things and backwardness are not immutable and the Chinese nation must be able to create the splendid future.

关 键 词：科学技术 秦汉 明代 中国 

分 类 号：N092[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学]