Faust and Mon Faust

Following is a list of publications by Álvaro Félix Bolaños.     

南怀仁在华事迹考

比利时传教士南怀仁于康熙甲寅(1674)所制作的《坤舆全图》,现今珍藏在河北大学图书馆内.由于这幅地图保存的完整性和历史文献资料的重要参考性,引来了众多的中外学者.或对其图文鉴赏,或对其专业考察.为了使人们对南怀仁有一个更清楚的认识,了解他在华、尤其是在清康熙朝的史迹及其贡献,依据有关文献记载,特做介绍,以飨同仁.     

Federigo Enriques,Gaston Bachelard et Ferdinand Gonseth

The development and complexity of the debate about the conceptual structure of science in the XX^th century gave birth to a new discipline, the history of epistemology, with the aim of giving a critical history of our «epistemological heritage» with suitable methodologies of a historical and theoretical nature. A critical history of the philosophy of science on more «Wenden», besides the neo-positivistic and post-neo-positivistic ones; in Italy and France, in the first period of the XX^th century, developed a tradition of epistemological research in a neo-rationalistic sense with specific theoretical characteristics, particularly for the relevance assigned to the historicity of science. The Italian-French epistemology favored the study of the relationship between mathematical and physical thought, such as can be characterized as a really autonomous physical-mathematical epistemology; this different historical and epistemological approach, first elaborate by Federigo Enriques and then by Gaston Bachelard, Albert Lautman and Ferdinand Gonseth, allowed us to understand in the 30's the «implicit philosophy» in the works of Kurt Gödel and Hermann Weyl.     

麦哲伦环球航行基本史料探析

世界历史已经进入了全球化时代,而第一个进行环球航行的人是麦哲伦。所以,全球史的发端与麦哲伦密不可分。遗憾的是,国内学术界对麦哲伦的研究并不多,特别是对基本史料缺乏了解。今年是麦哲伦环球航行490周年,为纪念这一重大历史事件,本文特地介绍了麦哲伦船队成员所写的第一手著述以及同时代西班牙和葡萄牙学者所写的报告,以便深化相关研究的开展。     

南怀仁《穷理学》的主体内容与基本结构

南怀仁的《穷理学》是明末清初中西会通的集成之作 ,但毁失严重。本文通过对南怀仁的“穷理学”概念、《穷理学》一书的编撰背景和编撰方式 ,以及现存的《进呈〈穷理学〉书奏》和 1 4卷《穷理学》残本的内容等三个方面的分析 ,认为《穷理学》包括逻辑学与方法论及形而上学、数学、天文学、测量、力学与机械、生物学与医学等六个方面的内容 ,并按照 5卷为一端的形式共形成 60卷。该书的显著特点是剔除亚里士多德哲学中的自然神论 ,并融合中国传统格致知识 ,以演绎推理构成全书内容。该书反映了明末清初“格物穷理之学”的总体概况。     

The Suez Canal Revisited Ferdinand de Lesseps: The Genesis and Nurturing of Macroengineering Projects for the Next Century

Abstract

In commemoration of the centenary of Ferdinand de Lesseps' death on 7 December 1894, an expanded version of the 1993 MIT BruneI Lecture delivered by Jean-Paul Calon is here reproduced. The benefits that humanity has derived from innovative large scale projects such as the Suez Canal – the product of Lesseps' imagination and perseverance – are affirmed and the technological progress born out of this massive constructional effort is reviewed. Finally, a plea is made for a more visionary and enlightened outlook among contemporary engineers in the light of several macroengineering projects that are ripe for development and exploitation.