Science History: Fifteen Lectures

Author: Jiang Xiaoyuan
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The rapid development of modern civilization has made the distance between natural science and humanities increasingly distant. The once-wise and knowledgeable Aristotle-like genius masters have now become a fairy tale. This is certainly not good, but rather the price humanity has had to pay to achieve modern civilization. The wise have been concerned about this issue for a long time. As early as the early 20th century, when President Conant of Harvard University suggested using the term "Science and Scholarship" to balance both, it was warmly welcomed. At that time, Sarton was passionately calling for the establishment of a bridge between humanists and natural scientists. The bridge he chose was not something else--it was exactly the history of science; he believed, "Building this bridge is the main cultural need of our time."