自然科学と哲学・思想の関わりを中心に、中国・漢代のオピニオンリーダーたちの科学思想や、人文学中の自然科学的な要素を分析しようというもの。

《中国古代天文学词典》是系列中的一本，《中国天文学史大系》（全套共10卷）是中国科学院重点研究项目的一大成果。由中国科学院自然科学史研究所牵头，组织包括北京天文台、紫金山天文台、上海天文台、陕西天文台、北京天文馆、南京大学天文系、北京师范大学天文系等单位的，堪称中国天文学史界主要力量的二十余位专家，历时三十多年，集体编撰完成。《大系》集中国天文学史研究之大成，深入揭示了中国古代天文学理性认知探求与思想文化的关系，具有承前启后的重要学术价值。其所涉及的内容之广，超过了以往的中国天文学史论著，具有国际先进水平，引起国际天文学界和科技史界的高度关注，也推动了国际上对中国天文学史的研究。
《大系》根据大专题立卷，各卷又有机结合，所引用史料准确丰富，分析科学合理，视野广阔，论述深入，构筑了一幅全景式的中国天文学历史发展的宏伟图像。

《中国近现代气象学界若干史迹》，本书是作者根据亲见、亲闻、亲历撰写的与我国气象学界有关的人和事的史实性的文章数十篇，再现了在竺可桢先生的领导下，中国气象事业一步步发展的历史轮廓。书中史料详实可信，一些因时间久远引起的若干史实存疑也力求通过考证、回忆，还原其真相，为今后的近现代气象史研究提供了方便。

◇不了解江户时期，就无法了解日本。一本书了解日本江户美学与博物画。
◇令人惊叹的日本草木鸟兽虫鱼精密写生，大量珍贵图片，首次中文引进。
刘华杰×止庵×刘柠 联袂推荐！
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【内容简介】
◇江户时期是德川幕府统治日本的年代，时间由 1603年创立到1867年的大政奉还，是日 本封建统治的最后一个时代。
◇花、鸟、虫、鱼、兽，奇鸟与珍兽，令人惊异 的美的写生，让人目不暇给。
◇美的艺术的享受与博物的知识的赏析，完美地结合在一起，日本封建时期绘画艺术的巅峰，所选画作大多为京都国立博物馆、国立国会图书馆等所藏，此前尚未引进。
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【编辑推荐】
◇《江户时期的动植物图谱》一书中所收入的大量博物画，正是出自日本国立国会图书馆白井文库、伊藤文库所珍藏的写本。
◇该书按照“草木鸟兽虫鱼”的顺序依次介绍相应的博物图谱，暗合江户知识人理解自然的流行框架。
◇本书为选本性质，胜在主题多样。除了精选大量有代表性的图谱之外，编者还提供了大量有作者和作品的信息，并且为博物画中的动植物附上了现代学名，方便读者阅读。
◇通过该书，读者可以循着本书提供的线索探索更为广阔的江户博物画世界。
◇裸脊锁线，平摊展开，封面烫金，内附4幅精美装裱画，2张书签。
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【媒体评价】
◇刘华杰
江户时期的日本人谦虚，善于学习，既学李时珍（1518—1593）的《本草纲目》，也请画师沈铨（1682—1760）到日本传艺，更通过兰学、西学而广泛学习西方的自然探究方式方法。日本人在学习中国博物学、考证动植物名称、实施诸国产物调查时，加强了“写实风格”。日本学者和画师的描写、绘画无不讲究精细、精密，当写实与气韵、境界相冲突时，毫无疑问以前者为优先，此举大大推进了对自然世界的认知。
◇止庵
我很喜欢看日本画，无论画家的，还是画匠的，其中包括他们画花的作品，曾购买《若冲画谱》和《立花》二种，皆巨册，置于柜中，不易检阅。今得此《江户时期的动植物画谱》，小巧可爱，便于赏玩。对我来说，看动物画可弥补知之不足，看植物画可重温一己爱好。
◇刘柠
这本经狩野派在内的各流派绘师绘制的《江户时期的动植物图谱》，既超越了作为药典的本草纲目的简易线描，同时也从技法上逾越了《芥子园画谱》的藩篱，成为一部风格独具，写实与写意相互融合、浑然天成的人文博物志。

Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the �peacock flower� into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.

In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of the texts, Jens Hoyrup proposes that the traditional interpretation must be rejected. The texts turn out to speak not of pure numbers, but of the dimensions and areas of rectangles and other measurable geometrical magnitudes, often serving as representatives of other magnitudes (prices, workdays, etc...), much as pure numbers represent concrete magnitudes in modern applied algebra. Moreover, the geometrical procedures are seen to be reasoned to the same extent as the solutions of modern equation algebra, though not built on any explicit deductive structure.

本书讲述爱因斯坦如何创建了相对论，它的意义何在等内容，由手稿阐释及相对论相关论文组成。
这本书是在爱因斯坦1915年发现广义相对论百年庆之际出版的，这是标志相对论由狭义向广义飞跃高潮的论文的注释本。广义相对论发展历程中蕴涵着革命性意义。

领略理性与艺术的光辉，
感受宇宙的秩序与美！
这本书就像一段穿越时空的旅程，沿着千百年来人类仰望星空的印迹，
揭示出宇宙所蕴藏的无可比拟的美感与秩序。
用一张张可以双手摊开的二维图像，
来刻画行星、星云，星系，星系团、甚或是时空中的一切。
人类的动机除了勇气、必要与别无 选择，还有作为与生俱来的骄傲。
宇宙是什么样子的？太阳、月亮、行星和满天繁星是什么样子呢？当人类第一次望着天空，心里一定会有很多疑问。
迈克尔•本森的这本《宇宙图志》共分10章，以一种全新的方式讲述了人类认识宇宙的故事，天文学的记录方式随着时间演变有着不同的演绎。他挑选了百余幅艺术性强和意义深远的插画及星空图，以人类对于天空理解的时间渐进顺序排列，其中很多收藏于世界著名的科学图书馆，而很多图在今天并不为人所知。
浩瀚宇宙，很大程度上，从感官上来说并不可见。这本书从文化史（可视化）的角度来系统展示人类认识宇宙的漫长历程，展现了人类对宇宙的想象。书中的插图都非常经典，大多是欧洲中世纪的作品，在国内从来没有被系统地介绍过。这本书就像一个精心策划的展览，感受一些大自然自身蕴藏着无可比拟与塑造的美感。一种宏观的美感产生于遥远而陌生的宇宙之中。作者的艺术背景让他跳出抽象的概念与数据，专注于图像。解说部分致力于勾勒出认识发展的轮廓，通过连贯的时间线索，把这些作品还原到相应的年代中。这本书几乎不需要任何背景知识、只要对其中所涉及的历史，宗教、艺术、科技等任一文化元素感兴趣，就可以信手翻阅，并有所收获。与天文数据拍摄不同的是，艺术家植入了自我的主观判断，以视觉美感的角度选取拍摄的角度与环境。

《天文学史:一部人类认识宇宙和自身的历史》讲述天文学在古代从一种生存方式演变为一种生活方式，到近代成为科学革命的突破口，再进而成为人类适应自然、认识宇宙、认识自身的重要途径和手段的历史，包括史前时期天文学的萌芽、希腊的欧洲古典天文学、中国古代天文学、近代天文学革命、天体力学的奠定、天体测量学的兴起和天体物理学的诞生等主要内容。通过阅读《天文学史:一部人类认识宇宙和自身的历史》，读者对天文学的基本概念和基本理论的发展历史，对天文学研究面对的基本问题和所采用的基本方法的变迁，对我们身处其中的宇宙与我们人类自身的关系，以及对天文学作为一门重要的自然科学如何推动整个科学的进步等，都将有一个全面正确的认识。

德国马普学会组建伙伴小组，是国际科学合作的一个重要尝试。以此台，中国学者积极参与国际前沿的研究与交流，扩大中国学术研究的影响。中德科组成国际团队，便于共同探讨科学前沿问题及解决复杂的跨文化传统、涉及多个领学术问题。
力学既是人类认识与阐释自然努力的结晶，也是人类发明与创新的重要实践依据和灌论源泉。中国与欧洲都有着长期的力学知识积累，两个知识传统在经典力学体系形成的前夜相遇，《奇器图说》就是此相遇的一个成果。马普学会在中国科学院的科学史伙伴小组及德国学者选择这样的一部著作，研究它的内容、结构、来源及其成书与流传过程，探讨中国与西方之间跨文化力学知识的传播与互动的过程和模式，以及社会、文化等环境对科学发展与传播的作用，最终完成了《传播与会通:奇器图说研究与校注(上下)》。现在，这部书即将由凤凰出版传媒集团江苏科学技术出版社，江苏省金陵科技著作出版基金资助正式出版。

How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist Asia

Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This highly distinctive and unusual method of disputation was a core feature of medieval science, the predecessor of modern science. We know that the foundations of science were imported to Western Europe from the Islamic world, but until now the origins of such key elements of Islamic culture have been a mystery.

In this provocative book, Christopher I. Beckwith traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia. He shows how the method was adopted by Islamic Central Asian natural philosophers―most importantly by Avicenna, one of the most brilliant of all medieval thinkers―and transmitted to the West when Avicenna's works were translated into Latin in Spain in the twelfth century by the Jewish philosopher Ibn Da'ud and others. During the same period the institution of the college was also borrowed from the Islamic world. The college was where most of the disputations were held, and became the most important component of medieval Europe's newly formed universities. As Beckwith demonstrates, the Islamic college also originated in Buddhist Central Asia.

Using in-depth analysis of ancient Buddhist, Classical Arabic, and Medieval Latin writings, Warriors of the Cloisters transforms our understanding of the origins of medieval scientific culture.

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The ancient Chinese were profoundly influenced by the Sun, Moon and stars, making persistent efforts to mirror astral phenomena in shaping their civilization. In this pioneering text, David W. Pankenier introduces readers to a seriously understudied field, illustrating how astronomy shaped the culture of China from the very beginning and how it influenced areas as disparate as art, architecture, calendrical science, myth, technology, and political and military decision-making. As elsewhere in the ancient world, there was no positive distinction between astronomy and astrology in ancient China, and so astrology, or more precisely, astral omenology, is a principal focus of the book. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including archaeological discoveries, classical texts, inscriptions and paleography, this thought-provoking book documents the role of astronomical phenomena in the development of the 'Celestial Empire' from the late Neolithic through the late imperial period.

Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history and political theory. John Gascoigne argues the case for an ongoing mutual dependence of the state and science in ways which have promoted the consolidation of both. Drawing on a wide body of scholarship, he shows how the changing functions of the state have brought a wider engagement with science, while the possibilities that science make available have increased the authority of the state along with its prowess in war. At the end of World War II, the alliance between science and state was securely established and, Gascoigne argues, is still firmly embodied in the post-war world.

This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century Germany. The authors show how the junior second physicist in German universities over time became the theoretical physicist, of equal standing to the experimental physicist. Gustav Kirchhoff, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Max Planck are among the great German theoretical physicists whose work and career are examined in this book.Physics was then the only natural science in which theoretical work developed into a major teaching and research specialty in its own right. Readers will discover how German physicists arrived at a well-defined field of theoretical physics with well understood and generally accepted goals and needs. The authors explain the nature of the work of theoretical physics with many examples, taking care always to locate the research within the workplace.The book is a revised and shortened version of Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, a two-volume work by the same authors. This new edition represents a reformulation of the larger work. It retains what is most important in the original work, while including new material, sharpening discussions, and making the research more accessible to readers. It presents a thorough examination of a seminal era in physics.

本书以耶稣会士和天文学为主题，系统查阅研读了国内外所藏清代历算著作、官方文献和清人文集，并与欧洲所藏第一手西文档案资料互证，在全球史和跨文化的视野下系统阐述天主教传教士与欧洲天文学传入中国的诸面相。
作者试图将天文学传播置于政治史、社会史和宗教史的语境中加以讨论，完整勾勒清代近两百年间欧洲天文学在华传播的历程。通过案例，生动展现知识和权力交织的复杂背景，进而揭示了康熙皇帝如何通过西学来达到控制汉人和洋人之目的；深入分析了皇子、传教士、钦天监官员和士大夫群体在知识传播中所扮演的不同角色。