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The Research On The History Of Chinese Historiography Of Science

Posted on:2010-09-15Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z H ZhanFull Text:PDF
GTID:1100360275494532Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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The history of Chinese historiography of science takes scientific historiography as the research object, which main task is to explore the law of development and the evolution with historiography of Chinese science. Its scope and content of a wide range, including Chinese scientific historiography own history, but also with other disciplines and social relationships.Its Study can not only promote the history of science disciplines and related disciplines to develop, but also to awaken people's concern about the cause of scientific historiography, promote communication and integration to science and humanities, and even conducive to scientific innovation. It must follow certain principles, that is, the unity of historiography and corresponding, continuity and discontinuity, integrity and level, history and logic. In methods, it is necessary to apply the basic methods of historical research, such as historical method and logical method, induction and deductive method, analytic method and synthesis method, historical comparison, but also to use many other methods, such as statistical methods, measurement methods, the transplantation method, diachronical analysis and anachronical analysis methods, as well as specific research phases, classification and stratification research methods, and so on.Chinese historiography of science which comes from Mainland and other parts of China has its own history of development. Mainland China's historiography of science has gone through its infancy, Creation stage, preliminary development, adjust and prosperity and an in-depth development in different periods.Thesis cardings and summarizes Mainland China's historiography of science from the organizations, groups, conferences, publications, works more systemically. Especially,in order to facilitate the introduction, conferences and works are divided into Comprehensive history, math history, history of physics, chemistry history, history of astronomy, geography history, biology history, medical history, agricultural history, technology history. Thesis also gives a detailed introduction to scientific historiography of Taiwan from different aspects.It has an important value and significance to research Chinese historiography of science. Thesis discusses in detail the relationship between Chinese historiography of science and other disciplines, and highlights the academic value of its research. Thesis also expounds the relationship between the relationship between scientific historiography and technological innovations to highlight social impact of its research.Finally, thesis re-examines Chinese historiography of science under the world background. It organizes the course of development of foreign scientific historiography and the situation of Chinese historiography of science overseas, explores its value and significance to domestic research, and discusses its development issues under the background of "Globalization".
Keywords/Search Tags:history of science, historiography of science, history of historiography of science
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