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The rise of science reconsidered

机译:重新考虑科学的兴起

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When Columbus discovered America, European culture hadn't yet grasped the concept of discovery. Various languages had verbs that could be translated as discover, but only in the sense of discovering things like a worm under a rock. Scholars operated within a worldview that all knowledge had been articulated by the ancients, such as Ptolemy, the astronomer who compiled the mathematical details of the Earth-centered universe. As it happened, Ptolemy was also the greatest of ancient geographers. So when Columbus showed that Ptolemy's grasp on geography was flawed, it opened the way for Copernicus to challenge Ptolemy on his picture of the cosmos as well. Deep thinkers who were paying attention then realized that nature possessed secrets for humankind to "discover."
机译:当哥伦布发现美国时,欧洲文化尚未掌握发现的概念。各种语言的动词都可以翻译为“发现”,但仅限于发现像石头下的蠕虫之类的动词。学者们从世界观出发,认为所有知识都是古代人表达出来的,例如托勒密,托勒密是天文学家,他编写了以地球为中心的宇宙的数学细节。碰巧的是,托勒密还是古代地理学家中最伟大的。因此,当哥伦布证明托勒密对地理的理解存在缺陷时,这为哥白尼在他的宇宙图景上挑战托勒密开辟了道路。然后,引起关注的深刻思想家意识到大自然拥有人类“发现”的秘密。

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    《Science news》 |2016年第6期|28-28|共1页
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    Tom Siegfried;

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