从伽利略到杨振宁

From Galileo to Chen-Ning Franklin Yang

被誉为"近代科学之父"的伽利略,在西方近代科学革命中起到非常重要的作用,特别是伽利略开创了把数学与实验完美结合的科学研究方法,打破了亚里士多德物理学的传统,规定了近现代科学的发展方向,形成所谓的"伽利略风格"。杨振宁的研究不仅很好地再现了"伽利略风格",而且对重新理解"李约瑟问题"和中国传统文化具有启示意义。

known as the“father of modern science,” Galileo played a very important role in the western mod-ern scientific revolution, especially Galileo created the perfect combination of scientific research methods of mathe-matics and experimental physics, broke the Aristotle tradition, provided the direction of development of modern sci-ence, formed the so-called“Galileo style.” Chen-Ning Franklin Yang’ s research is not only a good representation of the “Galileo style,” but also has the enlightenment significance to re-understand the “The Needham Question”and the traditional Chinese culture.