The Mechanization of the World Picture

Pythagoras to Newton

單維彰的私人書摘

Dikshoorn, C., tr. (1986). The Mechanization of the World Picture--Pythagoras to Newton. (Translated of the Dutch work of Dijksterhuis, De Mechanisering van het Wereldbeeld. Amsterdam, 1959.) Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Edurd Jan Dijksterhuis (Oct 20, 1892--May 18, 1965) 是一位荷蘭學者, 他在荷蘭也本地的名聲已經算是晚成的,在英文世界更是默默無聞; 他的主要學術工作是編輯惠更斯全集。 我讀的這一本是 1986 年出版的,但其原稿是 1950 年寫成的, 拖到 1959 年在阿姆斯特丹出版,而英文譯本初次由牛津大學出版於 1961 年。

這本書非常硬,它是一部嚴肅的大作; 即使年代已經這麼久了,它的內容還沒普及,讀起來還是很硬。 或許因為作者膽敢說牛頓的《原理》有一部分可謂「國王的新衣」, 導致這本書在英文世界被冷落。

我從圖書館續借了它四次才讀完,而且只敢評估自己懂了一半。 明天就是該要歸還的日子,我也不想再續了,暫時緩緩吧。 先記下來貼標籤的頁碼:

p.100
Trivium 前身是 artes,Quadrivium 前身是 disciplinae: arithmetic, geometry...
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p.267, line 4
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p.287
At last we are approaching what may be called the anni mirabiles, ... It was a well-defined period, for it started in 1543 with Copernicus' work De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium and ended in 1687 with Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
p.289
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p.362
Galileo 的(英譯)原文:Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. ...
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p.444
「誤以相關為因果」的一段優美的例子,而且跨領域。 The possible connexion between Puritanism and the flowering of science in seventeenth-century England ... [is] the methodological error of concluding from the establishment of ... a high correlation that there must exist a causal dependence.
p.455
Four great technical inventions to which science in the 17th century owed its revival: the telescope, the microscope, the pendulum clock, and the air pump [by Otto Gericke, later Otto von Guericke].
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