摘要
本文详细考证了明末来华耶稣会士对托勒密天文学的介绍。发现《崇祯历书》在介绍托勒密天文学时所依据的原始材料不仅有托勒密的《至大论》,而且有托勒密的《行星假说》和哥白尼的《天体运行论》,可能还有G.普尔巴赫的《托勒密<至大论>纲要》。本文还讨论了托勒密天文学在天文学发展史上的历史地位,并指出:《崇祯历书》将托勒密天文学置于重要位置是有其理由的。
This paper textually researches and checks up the content of Ptolemic astronomy introduced to the Chinesf by the Jesuit astronomers, and finds that the source texts of Ptolemic astronomy in the famous Chong Zheng Li Shu (CZLS) include not only Almagest but also De Revolutionibus, Planetary Hypotheses, and perhaps, Epitoma Almagesti Ptolemaei. It also discusses the historical role of Ptolemic astronomy and points out that the CZLS has good reason to give it a very important position.
An Abstract of Almagest made by Adam Shall von Bell in Chinese is published here as an appendix.
出处
《自然科学史研究》
CSCD
1989年第4期306-314,共9页
Studies in The History of Natural Sciences
