Cultural relics and physics

Author: Dai Nianzu
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Publish Date: 2003-02-12
Features: "Chinese Cultural Relics and Disciplines" series, divided into ten titles: "Cultural Relics and Chinese Language," "Cultural Relics and Mathematics," "Cultural Relics and Physics," "Cultural Relics and Chemistry," "Cultural Relics and Biology," "Cultural Relics and History," "Cultural Relics and Geography," "Cultural Relics and Music," "Cultural Relics and Sports," and "Cultural Relics and Fine Arts." Each title emphasizes the characteristics of the respective discipline during the writing process, yet avoids presenting the history of a specific subject. It balances the coverage of disciplinary knowledge while staying grounded in cultural relic materials. Cultural relics silently narrate the past, while disciplinary knowledge builds the present and future. But have you ever been amazed by the knowledge possessed by our ancestors? Have you ever imagined how our ancestors used their knowledge to create, improve, and enrich their lives? Everything is condensed within cultural relics. Everything is contained in the "Chinese Cultural Relics and Disciplines" series. This book takes the various branches of physics as its framework, describing certain cultural relics related to each discipline, discussing the potential physics knowledge they may embody, their value and significance in the history of physics, or exploring the cognitive context reflected in cultural relics based on historical records of physics. It provides readers with a new perspective on appreciating cultural relics from a physics standpoint and a method of using cultural relics as evidence to study the history of science, serving as a reference for cultural relic researchers, historians, and scientists.