16世纪哥白尼学说的传播——再论科斯特勒与金格里奇之争  

“Nobody Reads” or “Somebody Reads”: The Dissemination of Copernicus’s Heliocentric Theory in the 16th Century

作　　者：吴紫露 宁晓玉 WU Zilu;NING Xiaoyu(School of Humanities,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100049)

机构地区：[1]中国科学院大学人文学院,北京100049

出　　处：《自然辩证法通讯》2022年第6期68-75,共8页Journal of Dialectics of Nature

摘　　要：著名小说家科斯特勒与哈佛大学天文学与天文学史双料教授金格里奇曾就哥白尼的《天球运行论》一书“有人读”还是“无人读”提出了截然相反的观点。对二人的论据展开讨论,发现二人结论实际上是针对不同读者群体而得出的。以此为切入点,对16世纪《天球运行论》的流传情况进行讨论,并从不同层次对日心说的传播进行初步探讨;指出《天球运行论》一书由于自身的创新性和复杂性,不能与同时代的其他天文著作的销量相提并论,而且《天球运行论》一书的传播并不直接等同于哥白尼日心说的传播;16世纪的日心说得到了不同层次的人群不同方式的传播。Arthur Koestler and Owen Gingrich have presented opposing views on whether the book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium has been “read” or “unread”.The author discusses their arguments and finds that they have reached different conclusions in relation to different readers.On this basis,the author discusses the circulation of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium and the dissemination of the heliocentric theory at different levels in the 16th century.The book was innovative and complex and cannot be compared in terms of the sales with other contemporary astronomical works.The spread of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium was different from the spread of Copernican heliocentrism.The heliocentrism in the 16th century was spread in different ways by different people.

关 键 词：哥白尼 《天球运行论》 16世纪日心说的传播 

分 类 号：N0[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学] G2[文化科学]