开普勒三定律发现的启示——兼谈李约瑟难题

Revelation from the foundation of the Kepler Laws-----A discussion on the Joseph Needham's Problem

从开普勒发现行星运动三定律前后这段物理学史中,可以总结出知识存在的三种形态,即:事实形态、规律形态和理论形态。透过知识形态的转变可以看到宇宙的和谐性以及西方人追求用演绎的方法来生产和组织知识的策略,这两点都来自于古希腊哲学家。中国没有产生近代科学的直接原因之一是古代中国人没有形成宇宙和谐性的信念且没有掌握用演绎的方法来生产新知识。

From the physics history of Kepler s discovering of the planet motion laws,the author summarized three kinds of existence forms of the knowledge,namely,the form of fact,the form of law,and the form of theory.Through this development,we can find the harmony of the universe as well as the strategy of deduction that used by the westerners to produce and organize the knowledge. These two all come from the ancient Greece philosophers.There are two reasons count for china did not develop modern science.One is tha...