摘要
鸦片战后不久,山西富商杨尚文结识了光学制器专家郑复光,杨尚文由此对历算及制器之术发生了兴趣,他慷慨解囊资助刊印郑复光《镜镜詅癡》,又聘请郑复光教授子弟近十年;在郑复光的影响下,杨尚文及其子弟都了解了历算制器之法、熟悉了传统古镜物形知识,后在西学东来的潮头面前,杨尚文之子杨昉接受西法与西学,成为中国北方最早的摄影师。由研治历算之学、制器之术,到接受西法、西学,杨氏家族研习科技的史事正显现着中国近代早期由接受"西法"、"洋器"入手的中学移接西学之路。
Yang Shangwen was a rich merchant of Shanxi Province.After the Opium War,he got acquainted with Zheng Fuguang who was well interested in arithmetic and optics and making lens.So Yang had been keen on Chinese traditional science and technology.He gave financial support to help print Zheng's work.Zheng had been working as a private tutor in the Yang family for 10 years.Under the inflnence of Zheng.Yang Shangwen and his sons and younger brother learned traditional arithmetic and lens making.In late Qing Dynasty,Yang Fang received Western learning and became one of the first photographers in northern China.The Yang family's studying of science and technology is a typical case.It can reflect how the Chinese began to receive Western learning early in the modern times.
出处
《山西师大学报(社会科学版)》
北大核心
2010年第4期105-109,共5页
Journal of Shanxi Normal University(Social Science Edition)