【本书特点】   国家出版基金项目   首次全面梳理近代中学生物学教科书的发展脉络。 ²  从科学传播、知识传播的视角分析近代中学生物学教科书。 ²  将教科书研究纳入到近代科学教育与生物学发展的大背景中审视、分析。 ²  着眼于近代中学生物学教科书的本土化历程。 ²  提出了教科书结构的知识系统、技能系统和认知系统“三系统体系”。   【内容简介】   全书共分为五章，以1902—1937年清政府、北洋政府、国民政府实际统治下的中国各地区的普通中学的生物学教科书为重点研究对象，以中国近代科学教育的发展与中国现代生物学的发展两条主线作为背景展开深入研究，介绍了近代中学生物学教科书的发展脉络，各个历史阶段生物学教科书的出版背景、主要出版机构、具代表性的生物学教科书及其特点；近代中学生物学教科书中生物学知识体系、知识来源、呈现方式、科学名词，生物学教科书在传播现代生物学知识中的作用；近代中学生物学教科书的本土化历程，表现形式及影响因素等三方面内容。

本书以编年体方式，记载了当代中国植物分类学的主要研究机构，主要植物分类学家，植物分类学的主要出版物，包括图书、期刊及其重要论著等，全国性与国际性植物分类学学术会议，以及重要的植物学采集等内容。
本纪事记载内容的起始时间为当代植物分类学的命名起点（1753年），尤其是中国植物分类学百年，以第一篇近代植物分类学文献的发表为起点（钱崇澍1916年），截止时间为2017年7月31日（深圳第十九届国际植物学大会闭幕）。
本纪事采用公历纪年。为方便读者，在附录一列出与公历纪年相对应的天干地支，以及1912年前的朝代年号和1912―1949年的中华民国年号。正文按年、月、日次序编排；凡无日可考则以月计，无月可考则以年计，且按作者或名称的字母顺序，列于相应之月或年之末。如果某一项工作目前仍然在进行或没有完成，或连续出版物，起始年代之后以加号“+”表示，如“1998+”。
本纪事收载的出版物中，地理范围以省、市、区为起点，包括志书、名录、检索表、图鉴或图志、手册、工具书等。采集则只关注原始采自于中国的植物，其中采集人（队）选取标准为一万号以上；国际植物采集活动相关历史资料贫乏，本记事尽可能对此进行了记载。
本记事收载的各类出版物同样尽可能以分类学为主，不同时期有所侧重；但不包括各类高校的自然科学版等刊物。专业类刊物则以分类学命名法规范畴为主，同时兼收一些非正规出版的各类“内部资料”或“内部印制”或“非正式出版物”，以及没有正规出版物书号的各类参考资料。
对于留学或研修者，主要记载1920-1980年代海外近70位获得博士学位者及其毕业院校、出归国时间、出国前和归国后的具体工作与服务机构、博士论文题目、指导教师等。
全书还收录了中国植物志和英文版中国植物志历届编委会、中国学者出席历届国际植物学大会、国内举办的历届中国植物学会、系统与进化植物学研讨会和各主要大类群的全国性学术会议，以及中外主要采集者、主要采集地、主要标本收藏地以及相关学术成果。
本纪事以两种语言编辑，即英文（部分内容采用拉丁文，包括其他西方语言转译为英文）和中文（部分内容采用日文），所有词条均以两种语言同时列出。排列方式以原文在前，另一种语言于后（包括译文）。如某文献以中文出版，则中文在前，英文在后（若为翻译，则有单引号以示与原作者的英文不同）；反之，英文在前，中文于后。
本书的出版不仅是对植物学研究历史的一个详细回顾，更为当代植物学研究者留下了非常珍贵的历史资料，为后人的研究带去更多的启迪和思考。

WAN Zhaoyuan analyses how Chinese intellectuals conceived of the relationship between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ through in-depth examination of the writings of Kang Youwei, a prominent political reformer and radical Confucian thinker, often referred to by his disciples as the ‘Martin Luther of Confucianism’.
Confronted with the rise of scientism and challenged by the Conflict Thesis during his life among adversarial Chinese New Culture intellectuals, Kang maintains a holistic yet evolving conception of a compatible and complementary relationship between scientific knowledge and ‘true religion’ exemplified by his Confucian religion ( kongjiao). This close analysis of Kang’s ideas contributes to a richer understanding of the history of science and religion in China and in a more global context.

本书以广博的视野，通过考察文艺复兴时期的自然志出版物、自然志家的通信手稿、园林方案、旅行见闻及图像材料，重构了文艺复兴时期自然志的发展历程，深入剖析了促成自然志兴起的知识传统、文化渊源与社会基础，回顾了四代自然志家的更迭演进。
自然志，又叫博物学，起源于古希腊，但在16世纪，它在欧洲陡然勃兴。对于历史学家而言，这种现象如谜一般。本书以广博的视野，通过考察文艺复兴时期的自然志出版物、自然志家的通信手稿、园林方案、旅行见闻及图像材料，重构了文艺复兴时期自然志的发展历程，深入剖析了促成自然志兴起的知识传统、文化渊源与社会基础，回顾了四代自然志家的更迭演进。
15至16世纪的自然研究者综合了原有的医学人文主义、古典语文学和自然哲学知识传统，发明出了一门描述动植物的新科学，即自然志。在这个充满新发现的时代，自然志家发展出观察和记录的新方法，开始利用植物园与腊叶标本，并在欧洲形成了国际性的共同体以相互交流，自然志学的传统由此得以光大。
本书曾获美国出版协会PROSE Book Award荣誉提名奖，美国科学史学会Pfizer Award奖。

What is “Europe,” and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term “Europe” circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.

The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The paradigm they established was to shape East Asian thought and practice in the field of mathematical astronomy for centuries to come. It was in many ways radically different from better known traditions of astronomy in other parts of the ancient world.
This book includes full English translations of the first three systems of mathematical astronomy adopted for use by imperial astronomical officials, together with introductory material explaining the origin and nature of each system, and a general introduction to the work as a whole. The translations, which are accompanied by the original Chinese text, give a consistent rendering of all technical terms, and include detailed explanatory notes. The text in which the second of the three systems is found also includes a unique collection of documents compiled around 178 CE by two experts in the field, one of whom was the author of the third system translated in this book. Using material transcribed from government archives of the two preceding centuries, these scholars carefully document and review controversies and large-scale official debates on astronomical matters up to their own time. Nothing equivalent in detail and clarity has survived from any other ancient culture. The availability of the totality of this material in English opens new perspectives to all historians of pre-modern astronomy.

Translating Early Modern Science explores the essential role translators played in a time when the scientific community used Latin and vernacular European languages side-by-side. This interdisciplinary volume illustrates how translators were mediators, agents, and interpreters of scientific knowledge.

15世纪的欧洲，人们仍然认为地球是宇宙的中心。波兰天文学家哥白尼提出“日心说”不仅拉开了现代科学发展的序幕，还彻底摧毁了中世纪的道德观念，改变了欧洲的社会、文化、习俗风貌。现在人们相信：地球是围绕太阳转的。
但是，鲜少有人思考，在仅凭肉眼观测星空的时代，哥白尼为何会提出与实际感官完全不符的“日静说”理论？在占统治地位的教会认定“地心说”为真理的16世纪，是什么动机使哥白尼如此“大胆”地重新制定行星秩序？如此“激进”的哥白尼理论是如何幸存下来的？它的提出带来了哪些新的问题？随后又有哪些关键的事件推动着这一理论的发展？有哪些重要的后继者不断完善这一理论体系？他们遭遇了哪些阻碍？如何与旧秩序的维护者进行角逐？他们之间关系如何？zui终又是如何促成这场漫长的颠覆？
本书作者耗时23年，梳理大量原始史料，厘清政治、社会、哲学、宗教以及文艺复兴、宗教改革、黑死病与占星术、天文学之间的各种关联，揭示了“哥白尼问题”的奥秘。

春秋之前，学在王官，有其事必有其官，有其官则必有其学。在上古时代，不同的知识观念派生出相应的职事需求，不同的职事需求推导出相应的社会功能，不同的社会功能催生出相应的话语方式，而最后不同的话语方式表现为相应的文献形态。在先秦头绪纷繁的知识系统中，渊源最古的便是天学知识。这项知识可以追溯到殷商或者更早的四方祭祀活动，其本身就具备知识与观念的双重属性。萌芽于先商，发展于战国的天学，始终体现着知识与观念的交缠。在中国上古史这段重要的制度创造时期里，天学知识以其深刻的观念性和广阔的阐释空间，很快成为政治制度的思想资源。在商周代际，巫觋被吸收进了史职体系，并利用天学知识中的“授时”传统，对政治作出“时”或“不时”的价值判断，建立起独具特色的史官话语；另一方面，他们对自然秩序的背后推动者，亦即“天”的阐释，构成了殷周革命的合法性来源。到了战国末期，诸子基于各自的学派立场，在天学作为政治哲学及科学的本体论和技术层面分别进行了重构或扩展，其中，稷下学者与阴阳家是其中最明显地继承了上古天学知识观念的群体。他们创立了最具野心的“五德终始”宇宙图式和“月令”话语系统，打破了王权“立中”的绝对性，再次印证了天学话语及其传承者在上古权力话语的建构中扮演着重要角色。
本书立足于对知识观念、功能制度、文体形态的综合考察，试图以上古天学知识和观念为中心，以时间为轴，纵向梳理出从殷商到战国，知识的发展与功能的变迁，是如何影响着文献的写定与人们的言说。

现代数学如何揭示宇宙最深处的秘密？
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从科学巨人爱因斯坦到量子力学大师保罗•狄拉克，众多数学家和理论物理学家都因这样的问题而困惑不解：为何物理学家为描述现实世界而创造出的理论会与数学家以自己的纯粹思想构造出来的数学结构殊途同归？为何宇宙碰巧就是以数学的语言书写而成的？事实上，这种现象正是物理学家维格纳所说的 “数学在自然科学中不合理的有效性”。
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在长达300多年的时间里，物理和数学时而并驾齐驱，时而渐行渐远。进入21世纪以来，数学家和理论物理学家越发意识到这两门学科交叉的意义。在数学与理论物理学紧密合作的领域已经结出累累硕果，两门学科的发展也互为补充和促进。
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在未来，人类可能无法通过实验来证实物理理论的真实性和准确性。未来的理论物理学研究进展可能会以千年为尺度，不再会有20世纪的相对论和量子力学这样全方位的革命性理论。但有了高等数学这一新武器的帮助，在长远的时间尺度上，我们仍可以认为理论物理学的前途是光明的

Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ranged across thermodynamics, the age of the Earth, the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, not to mention inventions such as an improved maritime compass and a sounding device which allowed depths to be taken both quickly and while the ship was moving. He was an academic engaged in fundamental research, while also working with industry and technological advances. He corresponded and collaborated with other eminent men of science such as Stokes, Joule, Maxwell and Helmholtz, was raised to the peerage as a result of his contributions to science, and finally buried in Westminster Abbey next to Newton. This book contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, covering the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include.
In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.

Newton's unusual - or even downright heretical - religious opinions were well known to a number of his contemporaries. For over two centuries the exact nature of his religious beliefs was a matter of intense debate, but by the middle of the nineteenth century it was public knowledge that he had held highly unorthodox conceptions of the Trinity. Until the early 1970s, very few of Newton's private theological researches had been made publicly available, and scholars did not determine his views with any precision. However, in the last few years millions of words from his previously unpublished religious writings have become publicly available, making it possible to offer a considered account of their content, and to assess what they tell us about the man.
In Priest of Nature, Newton scholar Rob Iliffe does just that. Tracing Newton's life from his birth though his years as a Cambridge don, his tenure as Warden and Master of the Mint, and his twenty-four years as President of the Royal Society, up to his death in 1727, Iliffe examines how Newton managed the complex boundaries between private and public professions of belief. While previous scholars and biographers have attempted to find coherence in his intellectual pursuits, Iliffe shows how wide-ranging and catholic Newton's views and interests in fact were, and in that takes issue with those who have attempted to underestimate their range and complexity.
Arguing that there is no simplistic coherence between Newton's philosophical and religious views, Priest of Nature delves into the religious writings Newton produced during his life, from his account of the sexually depraved lives of the early monks to his views about the creation of the world and the Apocalypse, and his commitment to a simple (anti-Trinitarian) doctrine that he believed had been corrupted in the first centuries of Christianity. Iliffe argues that religious commitments lay at the heart of Newton's earliest scientific research, and shows how his analysis of the techniques he used to prosecute corrupters of Christian doctrine were identical to those he used when dealing with his scientific enemies. Ultimately, Priest of Nature asserts, Newton's ambitious engagement with a tradition central to Western thought displays the same creative energy visible in his mathematical and scientific work, and despite his reluctance to follow any specific sect, he should be seen as a devout layman who made independence of thought a core virtue.
Offering novel insights into the spiritual life of Newton, Priest of Nature is both a scholarly work and a vibrant biography of one of the most influential scientists in history.

Over the course of the twentieth century, our understanding of and relationship to whales underwent astonishing changes. With The Sounding of the Whale, D. Graham Burnett tells the fascinating story of the transformation of cetaceans from grotesque monsters, useful only as wallowing kegs of fat and fertilizer, to playful friends of humanity, bellwethers of environmental devastation, and, finally, totems of the counterculture in the Age of Aquarius. A sweeping history, grounded in nearly a decade of research, The Sounding of the Whale tells a remarkable tale of how science, politics, and simple human wonder interwined to transform the way we see these behemoths from below.

This new survey of scientific endeavor within the British Empire is the most wide-ranging yet published, examining the interconnections between science, the British Empire, and the emergence of a globalized world. It identifies and analyzes the web of scientific networks crisscrossing the British Empire through which scientific knowledge and authority were produced, circulated and legitimated, critically engaging with new ways of thinking about networked connections across space. It offers a comparative perspective that surveys a variety of scientific initiatives and circuits, including networks of agronomists, anatomists, botanists, foresters, geologists, marine biologists, oceanographers and physicists. As they chart the evolving practices, strategies, theoretical ideas and agendas among research scientists, technical advisers, imperial administrators, and native peoples in Africa, Australia, Britain, India and elsewhere; each chapter combines rigorous research with theoretical reflection based on the latest literature, as well as serving as a useful introduction to that literature.

Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays which opens up alternative perspectives on some of the problems seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen in various walks of life from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the so-called 'mechanical philosophy' in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by proponents of Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Leonardo Fioravanti, Jan Swammerdam, Piero Della Francesca, Johannes Hevelius, Jonas Moore, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, Francesco Algarotti, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli. There is an introduction by the editors and an afterword by A. Rupert Hall.