Towards a history of the Royal Society in the eighteenth century
Towards a history of the Royal Society in the eighteenth century
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走向十八世纪皇家学会的历史
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1996
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R. Sorrenson
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R. Sorrenson
除了少数例外，学者们长期以来一直存在这样的印象：伦敦皇家学会在十八世纪正在衰落。这种误解源于四个主要来源：人们经常认为学会未能效仿其最伟大的院士艾萨克·牛顿爵士在《原理》中树立的杰出榜样；来自十七世纪末十八世纪初几位文学巨匠反复引用的负面观点；巴贝奇于 1830 年出版的《对英国科学衰落的反思》的持续流行，自此给该学会在 18 世纪的声誉蒙上了一层阴影；以及对协会早年的深入研究，这些研究为后来的时期蒙上了阴影。
A long-standing impression persists among scholars - with a few exceptions - that the Royal Society of London was in decline during the eighteenth century. This misperception has stemmed from four major sources: from the often-stated belief that the Society failed to follow the illustrious example that its greatest Fellow, Sir Isaac Newton, had set in the Principia; from the negative opinions, repeatedly quoted, of several literary lions of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; from the continued popularity of Babbage’s Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, published in 1830, which has cast a pall over the reputation of the Society in the eighteenth century ever since; and from the intensive study devoted to the Society’s early years, which has overshadowed later periods.