薛鳳(Dagmar Sch?fer),德國馬普科學史研究所所長、教授。主要研究領域為宋代和明清的知識文化、技術與政治的關係、科學技術思想發展中物質性與管理實踐所擔當的角色。已齣版的著作有《皇帝的絲衣:明代的官營絲織業》(德文版,1998)、《宮廷與地方:十七至十八世紀的技術交流》(與故宮博物院的學者閤編,中文版,2012)、《知識文化:中國曆史上的技術》(主編,英文版,2012)等以及論文多篇。
The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the longest and most prominent of these works, documents the extraction and processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods essential to everyday life, from yeast and wine to paper and ink to boats, carts, and firearms.
In The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, Dagmar Schäfer probes this fascinating text and the legacy of its author to shed new light on the development of scientific thinking in China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and effects on Chinese history. Meticulously unfolding the layers of Song’s personal and cultural life, Schäfer chronicles the factors that motivated Song to transform practical knowledge into written culture. She then examines how Song gained, assessed, and ultimately presented knowledge, and in doing so articulates this era’s approaches to rationality, truth, and belief in the study of nature and culture alike. Finally, Schäfer places Song’s efforts in conjunction with the work of other Chinese philosophers and writers, before, during, and after his time, and argues that these writings demonstrate collectively a uniquely Chinese way of authorizing technology as a legitimate field of scholarly concern and philosophical knowledge.
Offering an overview of a thousand years of scholarship, The Crafting of the 10,000 Things explains the role of technology and crafts in a culture that had an outstandingly successful tradition in this field and was a crucial influence on the technical development of Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
發表於2024-12-22
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對宋應星和《天工開物》的考察和閱讀意在將這部作品從後世戴有色眼鏡的審視中拯救齣來。清代編《授時通考》和《古今圖書集成》,將《天工開物》視為實用的治國之術,不僅將原書序言等很多部分捨去,而且人為分為兩個部分(類似《考工記》的技術部分,類似《農書》的農業部分)...
評分對宋應星和《天工開物》的考察和閱讀意在將這部作品從後世戴有色眼鏡的審視中拯救齣來。清代編《授時通考》和《古今圖書集成》,將《天工開物》視為實用的治國之術,不僅將原書序言等很多部分捨去,而且人為分為兩個部分(類似《考工記》的技術部分,類似《農書》的農業部分)...
評分對宋應星和《天工開物》的考察和閱讀意在將這部作品從後世戴有色眼鏡的審視中拯救齣來。清代編《授時通考》和《古今圖書集成》,將《天工開物》視為實用的治國之術,不僅將原書序言等很多部分捨去,而且人為分為兩個部分(類似《考工記》的技術部分,類似《農書》的農業部分)...
評分對宋應星和《天工開物》的考察和閱讀意在將這部作品從後世戴有色眼鏡的審視中拯救齣來。清代編《授時通考》和《古今圖書集成》,將《天工開物》視為實用的治國之術,不僅將原書序言等很多部分捨去,而且人為分為兩個部分(類似《考工記》的技術部分,類似《農書》的農業部分)...
評分對宋應星和《天工開物》的考察和閱讀意在將這部作品從後世戴有色眼鏡的審視中拯救齣來。清代編《授時通考》和《古今圖書集成》,將《天工開物》視為實用的治國之術,不僅將原書序言等很多部分捨去,而且人為分為兩個部分(類似《考工記》的技術部分,類似《農書》的農業部分)...
圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 科技史 思想史 曆史 中國 科學史 技術史 社會史
宋應星真有她說的那麼厲害嗎
評分宋應星真有她說的那麼厲害嗎
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評分一本漫長的《天工開物》導讀。因後世多把這本書看作科技史的文獻並隨意拆解,作者便側重於還原《天工開物》的政治野心:揭示material transformation裏的普遍性規律,以一個有內在秩序涵蓋萬物和人事的“氣”,代替被理學強加於人事的道德的“天”;理學所依賴的文獻推演也被直觀觀察,記錄、實驗取代,這是作者認為宋應星奉行的“知行閤一”。然而作者並未對宋書中技術的本體、技術和人的關係做過多哲學上的闡釋。看過yuk hui再來想一想......
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