摘要
国立中央研究院是民国时期集自然科学和人文社会科学于一体的全国性最高学术研究机构,是中国现代有系统的科学研究事业的开端,也是中国科学史上的重要里程碑.《从蔡元培到胡适》再现了战争纷乱的年代里,蔡元培等知识分子筚路蓝缕,在诸多科学领域取得了前所未有的学术成就,推动了国家学术事业的发展.通过对先贤们人生、事业和精神世界的探求中获得了对以科学立国的知识分子的理解和同情,在回顾历史的同时获得了对现在世界的比照.
Abstract
Academia Sinica was the national and the most advanced academic research institute that embodies natural sciences as well as humanities and social sciences in the period of Republic of China, which indicates the beginning of the systematic research in modern China, the important milestones in the history of science of China as well. From Cai Yuanpei to Hu Shi reappears at the intellectuals as Cai Yuanpei who won unprecedented achievements in many modern scientific fields which promote the development of national academic course in arduous time, right and wrong as well as gratitude and resentment which was left because of academic arguments and personnel matters. It acquires the understanding of and sympathy for the intellec- tuals through probing into their lives, causes and spiritual world, retrospect to the history while refers to the present world.