摘要
半个世纪来 ,中国火井历史研究取得了丰硕成果 ,也因史料缺略和理解差异而产生了若干争议。新发现的 5种火井史料揭示了 1 6— 1 8世纪火井开发和天然气煮盐的实况 ,证实了汉晋临邛火井到清代自流井气水田之间火井技术的演进过程。当时试图对这一自然奇观作出诠释的中外学者 ,未能摆脱中国和欧洲传统科学思想的束缚 。
Research carried out in the last 50 years on the history of Chinese “fire wells”(natural gas wells)subtantially increased our knowledge of the history of exploitation of natural resources in China.Due to a dearth of historical material and to differences in its interpretation,however,a number of issues are still open to debate. In this article,there are introduced five new historical documents on the opening of “fire wells”in Sichuan and the use of natural gas for boiling salt from the 16th to the 18th centuries.They show the fire wells' long evolutionary process beginning with the fire wells of Linqiong in the Han and Jin periods to the exploitation of the natural gas and brine fields of Ziliujing during the Qing.Before the modern period,both Chinese and Western scholars endeavouring to explain the strange phenomenon of fire wells were not able to free themselves from the concepts of their respective tradition of scientific thought.In spite of these deficiencies in theoretical explanation ,Sichuan salt producers were nonetheless quite successful in tapping this important energy resource for their limited,practical ends.
出处
《自然科学史研究》
CSSCI
CSCD
2000年第4期383-397,共15页
Studies in The History of Natural Sciences
关键词
火井
天然气煮盐
四川
中国
井盐
天然气开发
fire wells ,natural gaswells,salt production, Sichuan,traditional scientific thought
