印刷术与宋代知识发展方式的转型——以中国古代全国总图的发展为例

Printing and the Transformation of Knowledge Development in the Song Dynasty

印刷术在宋代的普及除了推动知识传播范围的扩展之外,更为主要的是极大提高了知识的留存率,而留存率的提高又促进了知识的积累和创新。宋代之后,以地图作为载体的知识类型形成了明确的发展脉络,这与唐代及其之前极低的地图留存率以及所承载的知识缺乏传承形成了明显的差异。因此,宋代印刷术的普及从根本上改变了中国古代知识的发展方式。

The popularization of Printing in the Song Dynasty not only caused the expansion of the scope of knowledge disseminates,but also greatly improved the survival rate of knowledge,which in turn promoted the accumulation and innovation of knowledge. The knowledge carried by the maps formed clear development veins after the Song Dynasty,which made a clear difference with the extremely low survival rate of the map in and before the Tang Dynasty and the lack of inheritance of the knowledge it carried. Therefore,the popularization of Printing in the Song Dynasty fundamentally changed the way of development of ancient Chinese knowledge.