Lost Legacies and a Living Past

“失落的遗产和活生生的过去”是一个研究网络，它使当代人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的专家和现代科学家聚集在一起，创造新的方法，将中世纪关于世界、宇宙和人类在创造中的地位的惊人思维带入生活。把中世纪学者和现代科学家放在一起重新审视中世纪的科学文本，提醒现代科学有着更深的根源，而且对我们周围世界的科学方法比最近的西方科学传统所暗示的要古老。在中世纪，人文科学和科学之间的区别并不存在;两者都构成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，提供了反思解释，翻译和展示过程并面对现代科学方法的机会。该网络旨在创造一种环境，使人文和科学领域的研究团体能够相互交流，共同揭示中世纪思想家构思世界的方式。 然而，不仅如此，该网络还将把对中世纪科学的研究带入课堂。侧重于中学科学学习的教育工作者和学校教师将成为该网络的一个组成部分。在这样做的时候，进一步的问题将被问到如何中世纪和现代科学家之间的研究可以塑造为中学课程，并有助于提供科学史的更全面的意义。中学科学史以现在的形式始于世纪。“失落的遗产和活生生的过去”将开启一场辩论，讨论如何在学校科学课程中展示更深层次的过去的重要性，以及教育界与研究界接触的好处。在这样做的过程中，该网络旨在参与更广泛的公众辩论，讨论科学的性质以及过去在定义现在和激励未来方面的作用。

'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.