中研院20世纪30年代测时工作失败原因探

Reasons for the Failure of the Program for the Foundation of a National Metrology System of Time in the Academia Sinica in 1930s

1930年代中期,中研院天文研究所的测时工作未能充分开展,这导致建立时间国家计量系统的计划以失败告终。通过对陈展云《中国近代天文事迹》及李铭忠工作报告等文本的辨析,李惠兴文章中的一些观点被批驳了。他得出错误观点的主要原因在于忽视了1935年4月李铭忠个人工作报告的写作背景。测时工作的停滞源于一直未完成子午仪的校正工作,这与子午仪室负责人李铭忠有着紧密的关联。他应承担计划失败的主要责任。

In the middle of 1930s,time measurement in the Institute of Astronomy,Acadamia Sinica was not smoothly operated,which led to the failure of the program for the foundation of a national metrology system of time.After a critical analysis of Chen Zhanyun's Astronomical Stories in Modern China and Li Ming-tchong's work reports,several opinions in Li Huixing's dissertation are criticized.His faults are due to the negligence of the background of Li Ming-tchong's report written in April,1935.The halt of time measurement in the institute derived from unfinished calibration of meridian transit,which is tightly related to Li Ming-tchong,who is in charge of the apparatus.He should bare the primary responsibility for the failure of the prgram.