论文部分内容阅读
作为洋务运动的发起者和中坚,中国近代第一位驻外外交官郭嵩焘,对彼时西方科学发现和技术发明予以关注考察,并进入英法精英界,结交社会名流——包括众多的科学家,相与切磋和探讨科技与强国之关系。目前,学界从科技的视角对郭嵩焘与西学关系的探讨可谓寥寥。事实上,郭嵩焘以他独特的文化视野观察、思考、记录下的这次中西文化思想交流,极具史料和学术价值。本文以天文学为案例和线索,将郭嵩焘游历西洋的经历置于近代西方科学进展的大背景下,分别从其得益友人、就教西士、游访天文台、读报相谈等方面进行研究,梳理出郭嵩焘接触近代西方天文学的机缘、途径,并分析作用于这种接触结果的科技思想、科技观。
As the initiator and backbone of the Westernization Movement, Guo Songtao, the first diplomatic officer in China in modern times, paid close attention to the scientific discoveries and technological inventions of the West at that time and entered the elite circles of Britain and France to make celebrities - including many scientists, And learn from and explore the relationship between science and technology and power. At present, scholars from the perspective of science and technology to discuss the relationship between Guo Songtao and Western science can be described as very few. In fact, Guo Songtao observes, thinks and records the exchange of Chinese and Western cultures and ideologies with his unique cultural vision, which is of great historical and academic value. Taking astronomy as a case and a clue, this paper places Guo Songtao’s travel experience in the Western context under the background of the progress of modern Western science. From the perspectives of benefiting his friends, he studies the teaching of Xishi, touring the Hong Kong Observatory, newspapers and periodicals, etc. Out of Guo Songtao access to modern Western astronomy opportunities, ways, and analyze the role of such contact results of scientific and technological thinking, science and technology.