送交者: BigMac 于 2015-04-13, 23:39:24:
回答: 科学网上还有好几位跟我理解一样。有的还列举了其他原因。我会陆续转过来。 由 BigMac 于 2015-04-13, 22:54:07:
The development of Western Science has been based on twogreat achievements, the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclideangeometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility offinding out causal relationships by systematic experiment (at the Renaissance).In my opinion one need not be astonished that the Chinese sages did not makethese steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.1
Whilethe last sentence is true, the general claim does not adequately acknowledgethe successes and significance of Chinese science.
这么有名的文章,这么有名气的一个作者,竟然你们都不知道!