近现代火药史学的形成与分野

Formation and Distinction of the Modern and Contemporary Historiography of Gunpowder

由明代发端、历经清代而至民国的中国主流火药史学,与19世纪末至20世纪初的西方火药史学,形成了以火器史和火药史"捆绑"研究为共有特征的近代火药史学。从科学史学史角度看来,20世纪三四十年代出现的以丹药学为基础的火药史研究,成为一种新的现代火药史学。这一研究视角和方法的转型是由曹焕文最早开创的。

The modern historiography of gunpowder was characterized by the research method of ＂binding＂ of the history of gunpowder and firearms, and it is formed by both the Chinese and the foreign historiography of gunpowder, of which the former arose from the Ming Dynasty and was developed through the Qing Dynasty till the Republic times, and the later experienced the period from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of 20th. It is believed, from the standpoint of the history of historiography of science and technology, that the research upon gunpowder based on the pharmacy in alchemy in the 1930s and 1940s became a contemporary historiography of gunpowder. The transformation was advanced first by a Chinese scholar named Cao Huanwen.