澳大利亚原住民：如何误解他们的科学
The Australian Aboriginal People: How to Misunderstand Their Science
摘要：
就在一代人之前，学生们被教导说，土著人不能数到五，在沙漠中寻找食物，没有文明或宗教，没有农业，不能导航，不会建造房屋，当西方文明在1788年拯救他们时，他们和平地默许了。我们怎么会错得这么离谱？在这里，我展示了传统的原住民对天空的了解，知道恒星的运动周期以及太阳、月亮和行星的复杂运动。我认为，今天学习科学的学生可以从接触前原住民的观察方式中学到很多东西，以建立一个自我一致的图片，他们周围的世界，预测能力和实际应用。
英文摘要：
Just one generation ago, schoolkids were taught that Aboriginal people couldn't count beyond five, wandered the desert scavenging for food, had no civilization or religion, had no agriculture, couldn't navigate, didn't build houses, and peacefully acquiesced when Western Civilisation rescued them in 1788. How did we get it so wrong? Here I show that traditional Aboriginal people knew a great deal about the sky, knew the cycles of movements of the stars and the complex motions of the sun, moon and planets. I argue that school students studying science today could learn much from the way that pre-contact Aboriginal people used observation to build a self-consistent picture of the world around them, with predictive power and practical applications.
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