论英国地质学的职业化

On the professionalization of geology in Britain

十九世纪中叶以前 ,科学研究的业余传统在英国的科学界一直占据着统治地位 ,地质学领域的业余传统尤为盛行。然而 ,英国的科学职业化正是肇始于地质学 ,而非已经成熟的物理学或其他学科 。

Before the middle of the 19th Century, amateur tradition had been prevailed in British science, especially in geology. However, the professionalization of science in Britian paradoxically commenced from geology orther than matured physics of other disciplines, consequently formed a outstanding landscape in the social history of sciene.