李约瑟问题的一个新答案,或者谁,如何和为什么发明了modern physics?
A new answer to the Needham Question, or Who, how and why did invent the modern physics?
摘要:
伽利略发明现代物理学的文化基础进行了讨论。现代物理学的关键新要素是对它的基本结构的坚定信念,这可以用双重公设来表达:1)存在着所有物理定律都可以从中推导出来的基本公理;这些公理并不明显,就像地下的基石一样不可见,或者用拉丁语说,fundamentum; 2)人类的头脑能够探索宇宙的这个基本层面,以理解它的运作,任何人都可以自由地在这个探索和理解的过程中做出贡献。实验主义和实证主义正是实现这一信念的工具。现代科学是在《圣经》因古腾堡和宗教改革而在其历史上发挥最突出的文化作用的时代被发明的。现代物理学的创始人都是深刻的圣经信徒,对他们来说,基本的双重假设是由圣经世界观的基本假设支持的。关键词-李约瑟问题;科学革命;现代物理学;文化基础;圣经文明;引力理论
英文摘要:
The cultural infrastructure that let Galileo invent the modern physics is discussed. The key new element of modern physics was firm belief in its fundamental structure, which could be expressed in the double postulate: 1) There are fundamental axioms that all the physical laws could be deduced from; those axioms are not evident, as invisible as the underground foundation stones, or, in Latin, fundamentum; 2) The human mind is able to probe into this fundamental level of the Universe to understand its working, and any person is free to contribute in the process of this probing and understanding. Experimentalism and mathematization were just the tools to realize this belief. The modern science was invented in the time when the Bible played the most prominent cultural role in its history due to Gutenberg and Reformation. All the originators of the modern physics were profound biblical believers, and for them the fundamental double postulate was supported by the basic postulates of Biblical worldview. Keywords - the Needham Question; the Scientific Revolution; modern physics; cultural infrastructure; Biblical civilization; theory of gravity
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