戴震对自然科学的研究

Dai Zhen's Research on Natural Science

戴震是清代一位具有广博知识的著名学者．但在以往的清史研究中，史学界往往把戴震列为清史中的哲学家范畴，说他是一位富有战斗精神的唯物主义哲学家．…有的著作还把戴震看作是清朝著名的思想家和考据学家．作者则着重论述鲜为人知的戴震对自然科学的研究．

Dai Zhen is one of the famous scholars with extensive knowledge in the Qing Dynasty. However,he is arranged in the list of the philosophers in the fo rmer researches on the history of the Qing Dynasty,defining that he is a philos opher of materialism with marvelous “fighting” spirit. Moreover,there are som e works which consider him as one of the famous thinkers and textual researchers in the Qing Dynasty. This paper mainly expounds Dai Zhen's research on natural science,which is little known by scholars.