洪大容地转说之学术渊源

Academic Origin of Hong Daeyong's Rotating Earth Theory

18世纪中晚期,朝鲜的洪大容在《医山问答》中提出了地球自转理论。对于他的理论是否是“独创”的问题,学术争论由来已久。通过对《医山问答》的具体解读并结合洪大容所处的时代背景及其经历,可以得知,洪的理论是有深刻的思想渊源的,其理论传承于宋代理学、汉译西学、17、18世纪朝鲜所制的浑天仪的原理、结构及其先辈对宋代理学、汉译西学的消化受用等四个方面。

In the late 18th century, Hong Daeyong of Korea put forward the rotation theory of the earth in his essay 'Uisan Mundap'(Dialogue in Mount Ui). Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether this theory is his original creation. By reading 'Uisan Mundap' in combination with his time and experience, we can understand that his theory has profound ideological sources, which derived from Neo- Confucianism of Song Dynasty, European science in Chinese, the principles of the Korean - made armillary spheres in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the theories adopted by his predecessors from Neo - Confucianism and European science in Chinese.