Intellectual Historical Research of Science in Literature: The Change of Cosmology and the Idea of Death in Early Modern England

我调查并写了一份从柏拉图到伽利略和开普勒的宇宙学概论的草稿。(2)为了弄清近代早期英国的宇宙学，我仔细研读了被称为英国伽利略的托马斯·哈里奥特（Thomas Harriot）的手稿，并阅读了与哈里奥特同时代的天文学家吉尔伯特（Glbert）、迪格斯（Digges）和牛顿（Newton）的著作。目前的研究主要集中在无穷大和原子论。我读了乔治·查普曼的诗，他是亨利·珀西圈子的成员，哈里奥特也属于这个圈子。在阅读他的诗歌时，我发现了他们对创造世界的想法和对创造世界的态度。我加深了我的研究，也阅读了布鲁诺（Giordano Bruno）和菲西诺（Marcilio Ficino）的著作，因为珀西圈子的成员认真研究了这些哲学家。在阅读了日本和英国两个学术团体的论文之后，我把我的研究结果作为一篇文章发表在了《17世纪英国文学的结束和开始》一书中。

(1) I surveyed and wrote a draft of the conspectus of cosmology from Plato to Galileo and Kepler.(2) I read and examined closely the manuscripts by Thomas Harriot, who is called English Galileo, and also read the writings by Glbert, Digges, and Newton, all of whom are contemporary astronomers of Harriot, in order to clear the cosmology in early modern England. The present research is focused on infinity and atomism.(3) I read the poems by George Chapman, a member of Henry Percy Circle, to which Harriot belonged. In reading his poems, I found their idea of the creation of the world and their attitude to the created world. I deepened my research, reading the writings by Giordano Bruno and Marcilio Ficino as well, because Percy Circle members studied earnestly those philosophers. I pupblished the result of my research as an article in a book Endings and Beginnings in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, after having read papers in two academic societies in Japan and in England.