How do"Great Scientific Revolutions"in Historical and Future Perspectives Come to Fruition?
Prof.Xiao Xianjing's work A History of Scientific Thought:The Scientific Revolutions Based the Reforms of Nature-Views and Methodologies has two main features,namely,"synthetism"as the research program and Great Scientific Revolutions as the research content.The research program of"synthetism"aims to synthesize the historical,philosophical,and sociological research programme of the study of the history of science,which is of great historiographical significance.The concept of Scientific Revolutions,based on an anti-scientific attitude and aimed at describing and planning scientific changes on the scale of the views of nature,is of historical and practical value.However,there are some issues deserving further discussion in the imple-mentation of this concept throughout the book:the prehistoric"mythic-religious view of nature"is not a kind of natural view,but a category of natural views,and it may not be accurate to regard it as"a"scientific revolution;many ancient civilizations and nations have independent or even mature views of nature,and it is not appropriate to regard only ancient Greek natural philosophy as a Great Scientific Revolution;contemporary"organic science"has not shown a trend to replace modem science both in scientific and social level,so it needs more explanation if it is regarded as a Great Scientific Revolu-tion;local science as the science of the future,does not necessarily require making too many economic commitments,and should maintain more distance from modern science.
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