一位科学史家的辩护——《文化一二三》读后

《文化一二三》是中国科学史家阵营里的一位排头兵——刘钝研究员所写的辩护词，这份催人奋进的辩护词不只是要为作者个人的学术探索而辩护，而且还要为科学史学科在当代中国的新发展——科学史的再建制化——而辩护。它以开放的心态解说科学史的学科性质以及它在今天的多元化发展前景，以“大哉为用”解释科学史的学术价值与社会文化价值。

A Historian''''s Apology: Remarks on Liu Dun''''s Culture 1, 2, 3

Culture 1,2,3,a collection of papers published within the past ten years by Prof.Liu Dun,the former director of the Institute for the History of Natural Science,may be looked upon as an apology not only for its author's own academic career but for the re-institutionalization of our discipline,the history of science,in today's China.In this apology,Prof.Liu verifies the identity of the history of science in an open academic atmosphere,tries to enlarge the field of the history of science by introducing new approaches into the investigation of traditional and new problems,and calls for the full fulfilling of the academic and socio-cultural values of the history of science.