Knowledge Production:Research on the Writing Model of Astronomy Textbooks in the Late Qing Dynasty
This article focuses on the textbooks of astronomy compiled by local scholars in the late Qing Dynasty,and explores the preliminary construction of Western modern astronomical knowledge in China.Through various forms of textbook writing,the editors were committed to preserving traditional Chinese astronomy and spreading Western astronomical knowledge within a new framework of coexistence of Chinese and Western knowledge.Ulti-mately,due to the limitations of national ideology,the textbooks of astronomy were based on the practical perspec-tive of the government.Although self-compiled textbooks contained the power to increase intelligence,they had not yet formed a modern discipline.