文艺复兴时期自然魔法的盛行和对实验精神的培育

作为一种非亚里士多德式的自然哲学，文艺复兴时期盛行的自然魔法是一种不同于传统魔法、主要为了实用目的的技术的魔法形态。由于自然魔法师广泛的观察一实验技术实践和他们关于物质实在的学者式与工匠式的思维方式的统一，16和17世纪欧洲人对自然世界的理解趋向更加“自然化”和“技术化”。文艺复兴时期的自然魔法实践促进了实验主义的兴起，为近代科学的诞生奠定了必要的实验工具和实验程序基础，促成了西方自然科学研究领域的经验主义旨趣向实验主义的嬗变，促进了西方世界自然概念的革新，凝练了对于科学研究的献身精神。对于近代自然科学的诞生和制度化，文艺复兴时期的自然魔法实践做出了奠基性贡献。

The Prevalence of Natural Magic and the Cultivation of Experimental Spirit During the Renaissance

As a non-Aristotelian natural philosophy,the natural magic prevalent during the Renaissance is a technical one forpractical purpose which is radically different from the traditional magic.Thanks to the natural magicians’ extensive observations andexperiments and to their unification of the scholarly and artisan’s ways of thinking about the material substance,the Europeans’understanding in the 16th and 17th centuries toward the natural world tended to be naturalized and technicalized.It is the natural magicpractice that promoted the rise of experimentalism,and laid foundation in experimental instruments and procedures for the birth ofmodern science.It is the natural magic that promoted the change in the Western natural scientific field from empiricism toexperimentalism,and the innovation of the concept of nature in the Western world,so the spirit of devotion to scientific research came to be popular.Natural magic contributed fundamentally to the birth and the institutionalization of the new disciplines of modern science.