关于苏颂铜制水运仪象台是否成功运转问题的讨论——与胡维佳研究员商榷

Discussion on the Question Whether Su Song’s Brass Water-powered Astronomical Clock Tower Ran Successfully: Consultation with Researcher Hu Weijia

本文从考察水运仪象台复制与研究全过程入手,对科技史学界有人提出苏颂铜制水运仪象台没有成功运转的论点加以评析。用《新仪象法要·进仪象状》,宋、金两史《天文志》、《律历志》等史料和今人利用仿真复原实验的数据以及苏州新育龙科教设备公司的复原实践,论证了苏颂铜制水运仪象台确实成功地运转过。

The paper starts with the research on the reconstruction and study of Su Song’s brass water-powered astronomical clock tower, analyses and comments on the view that Su Song’s water-powered astronomical clock tower did not run successfully. With illustrations of Tian Wen Zhi and Lv Li Zhi in the history of the Song dynasty and the history of the Jin dynasty, the data based on simulation and reconstruction experiment, and the reconstruction practice by Suzhou Xinyulong Science and Education Equipment Company, this paper demonstrates that Su Song’s brass water-powered astronomical clock tower did run successfully.