探析亚里士多德在西方科学史上的影响

Aristotle's Twice Origins in Western History of Science

亚里士多德及其科学思想、科学传统在科学发展史中具有重要影响。这不仅表现在他本人对整个古希腊自然哲学传统集大成地总结与超越;也表现在亚里士多德学说对亚历山大里亚科学产生的示范作用;更体现在其学说消匿数百年后被再发现仍对中世纪科学起到了积极的唤醒,以及对近代科学诞生的深切召唤。

Aristotle and his thoughts evidently have twice origins in western history of science. The first origin is that he perfectly summarized and transcended the tradition of natural philosophy during the whole ancient Greece period. The second one is that his thoughts awakened medieval science after the twelfth centuries and then beckoned neoterie science. It is doubly proved that Aristotle and his scientific thoughts and tradition play an important role in scientific history through the facts about twice origins.