最早传入中国的西方地震学知识

The Earliest Knowledge of Earthquake coming from Europe

龙华民（Nicolas Longobardi，1568～1654）和高一志（Alphonsus Vagnoni，1566～1610）都是明末西方来华传教的意大利传教士群中的两位，前者的《地震解》和后者的《空际格致》曾将当时欧洲的地震学知识介绍到中国来，其内容包括地震的起因、地震的等级、发生地震的季节和时辰、地震之前兆、地震后的状况（灾情）、发生地震之地点、地震持续时间等等。文章将一一加以叙述，并加以评论，可见用“气成说”解释地震之成因并不正确．但是所言火山爆发、地下岩浆沿着地壳裂隙涌出地面，确为地震成因之一．至于所言地震之预兆和地震后之破坏情形（灾情）等，与令人所见大致相同，仍然值得令人参考．

Nicolas Longobardi （龙华民, 1568 - 1654） and Alphonsus Vagnoni （ 高一志, 1566 - 1610） were two of the Italian missionaries arriving in China during the final period of the Ming Dynasty. They have introduced into China from Europe the earliest knowledge of earthquake which covers the causes of earthquake, the strength scale of earthquake, occurring seasons of earthquake, the evidences before earthquake occurs, many conditions after earthquake occurred, places of earthquake, the persistent time of earthquake etc.. This paper makes a brief introduction of this knowledge and comments on it.