From Material Discontinuity to Continuity Between Heavens and Earth:Overturning European Jesuit Teachings in the Huan You Quan(1628)  

从天地物质非连续性到连续性--《寰有诠》对欧洲耶稣会学说的翻转

作　　者：Thierry MEYNARD 梅谦立(Department of Philosophy,Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510275,China)

机构地区：[1]Department of Philosophy,Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510275,China

出　　处：《Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology》2024年第2期71-90,共20页中国科学技术史(英文)

基　　金：support of the Research Program for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education,China[22YJA720005].

摘　　要：Following Aristotle,St.Thomas Aquinas considered sublunar matter and supralunar matter to be substantially different,composed of two distinct species.The Coimbra Jesuit commentary on De coelo,published in 1593,supported the Aristotelian position,a position upheld by Jesuit philosophers and astronomers even into the mid-seventeenth century.However,the latest astronomical discoveries suggested otherwise,suggesting that supralunar matter is also subject to change and therefore belongs to the same species as sublunar matter,forming a material continuum.In a sharp contrast to this conservative Jesuit position in Europe,the Portuguese Jesuit Francisco Furtado and the Christian literatus Li Zhizao in the Huan you quan(1628)argued for the uniformity of matter across the sublunar and supralunar spheres.The paper investigates the argumentation of the Huan you quan and advances three reasons for this significant shift.遵循亚里士多德的思路,阿奎纳认为月下物质与月上物质具有本质性的差异,由两种不同物质构成。1593年出版的科因布拉耶稣会《〈论天〉评论》支持亚里士多德主义的立场,直到17世纪中期耶稣会哲学家与天文学家仍然主张这种观念,即便天文学的最新发现暗示着相反情况,即月上物质也发生变化,因此与月下物质属于同类,构成了一个物质性的连续整体。与欧洲耶稣会的保守立场明显不同,葡萄牙耶稣会士傅汎际与中国天主教徒李之藻在《寰有诠》(1628年)中论证月上与月下的物质统一性。本文研究《寰有诠》的论证,并为这一转变提出三种理由。

关 键 词：COSMOLOGY matter qi ARISTOTLE Coimbra 

分 类 号：O57[理学—粒子物理与原子核物理]