Lost Legacies and a Living Past

“失落的遗产和活着的过去”是一个研究网络，它使当代关注中世纪科学的非凡世界。该网络的存在是为了将中世纪专家和现代科学家聚集在一起，创造新的方式，将中世纪对世界、宇宙和人类在创造中的地位的惊人思考带入生活。把中世纪学家和现代科学家放在一起，重新审视中世纪的科学文献，提醒了现代科学更深刻的根源，提醒了我们，用科学的方法来研究我们周围的世界，比最近西方科学传统所表明的要古老得多。在中世纪，人文科学和科学之间的区别并不存在；两者都是同一知识文化的一部分。对于中世纪学者来说，与现代科学家一起重新研究中世纪的科学文献，为反思解释、翻译和呈现的过程，以及面对现代科学方法提供了机会。该网络的目的是创造一种环境，使人文和科学领域的研究团体能够相互交流，并共同揭示中世纪思想家构想他们的世界的方式。不仅如此，该网络还将把中世纪科学的研究带入课堂。关注中学科学学习的教育家和学校教师将成为该网络的组成部分。在这样做的过程中，将会提出进一步的问题，即如何将中世纪学家和现代科学家之间的研究塑造成中学课程，并有助于提供对科学史的更全面的认识。中学的科学史以现在的形式始于17世纪。“失去的遗产和活着的过去”将开启一场关于如何在学校科学课程中呈现更深层次的过去的重要性以及教育界与研究界合作的好处的辩论。在这样做的过程中，该网络旨在参与更广泛的公众辩论，讨论科学的本质以及过去在定义现在和启发未来方面的作用。

'Lost Legacies and a Living Past' is a research network which brings to contemporary attention the remarkable world of medieval science. The network exists to bring together medieval specialists and modern scientists, to create new ways to bring to life the breath-taking scope of medieval thinking on the world, the universe, and the place of man within creation. Putting medievalists and modern scientists together to re-examine medieval scientific texts reminds modern science of its deeper roots, and that a scientific approach to the world around us is older than the recent western scientific tradition suggests. In the Middle Ages the distinction between humanities and science did not exist; both formed part of the same intellectual culture. For medievalists, studying medieval scientific texts afresh alongside modern scientists offers opportunities to reflect on the process of interpretation, translation and presentation, and to confront modern scientific methodologies. The network aims to create the circumstances in which research communities both in humanities and in science can speak to each other, and together unpack the way in which medieval thinkers conceived their world. More than this, however, the network will take the research on medieval science into the classroom. Educationalists and school teachers focused on science learning at secondary school level will form an integral part of the network. In so doing, further questions will be asked about how the research between medievalists and modern scientists can be shaped for the secondary school curriculum, and help to offer a fuller sense of the history of science. Secondary school history of science starts in its present form with the 17th century. 'Lost Legacies and a Living Past' will open a debate on how to present the importance of the deeper past within the school science curriculum and the benefit of engaging the education communities with research communities. In so doing, the network aims to engage with wider public debate on the nature of science and the role of the past in defining the present and inspiring the future.