摘要
《五藏山经》不仅是中国先秦时代重要的地理学著作，而且也是我国古代记述矿物学知识的重要著作，书中收录了89种矿物和岩石，并对其物理属性、分类和产地都有较为准确和全面的记述，特别是关于有用矿产产地和产状以及矿物共生的正确描述，关于利用自然的思想等记述充分说明了《五藏山经》是我国现存最早对矿产进行形态描述、类型划分和区域研究的古代典籍，代表着先秦时代我国矿物学达到的水平，成为中国古代矿物学知识的丰富宝库，其中保存了我国矿产地质学形成雏形时期的大量史料，是研究我国古代矿产分类和地理分布的历史依据，在我国地质学发展史上占有重要的一席之地。
Wu Zang Shan Jing is not only an important work of the pre-Qin period,but also an important one recording ancient China's knowledge of mineralogy. It includes 89 kinds of minerals and rocks, and gives a rather precise and comprehensive account of their physical stratification, classification and producing areas. The account, especially its accurate description of mineral intergrowth, as well as its thinking on exploiting nature, fully shows that Wu Zang Shan Jing is an extant ancient work which initiates the description of the form of minerals, their classification and their regional study. The work represents the minerological level of China in the pre-Qin days, and may be regarded as a treasure-house in which a vast amount of historical data of mineral geology in its embryonic stage are stored. Providing a historical basis for studying the mineral classification and geographical distribution of China in ancient times, it plays a vital role in the development of Chinese geology.
出处
《自然科学史研究》
CSCD
1997年第4期368-383,共16页
Studies in The History of Natural Sciences
