中国对近代西方科学书籍的翻译

The Translation of Modem Western Science Books in Nineteenth-Century China

西方自然科学书籍翻译成汉语始于１６世纪的耶稣会士，但他们的影响到１９世纪衰落了。第一次鸦片战争和太平天国运动重新激起了中国人对西方军事技术以及作为其基础的自然科学的兴趣。清政府机构于１９世纪６０年代末开始系统地翻译西方科学书籍。同时，西方传教士也在做着他们自己的翻译工作。科学翻译当时产生的直接影响比较小，但它对下个世纪学术界、政治界的风云变幻却起到了催化作用。

The translation of Western science books into Chinese began with the JeSuits in the sixteenth century, but by 1800 their impact had waned. The First Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion stimuulated renewed interest in western military technologies and in the sciences that underpinned them, leading to systematic translations at government institutions in the late 1860s. Meanwhile, Western missionaries were making their own science translations, in the talief that science was an 'auxiliary to the spreading of the gospel'. Methods for translating and cuding new terms are unique and interesting. At that the the translations brought a relatively small direct influence, but in the next century they worked as catalysts for intellectual and political changes.