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“科学·文明”系列学术讲座由北京大学科学技术与医学史系和北京大学人文社会科学研究院共同策划组织，旨在搭建一个自然科学与人文学科的对话平台，邀请海内外杰出学者演讲，直面当今人类社会面临的一些根本性问题，激活“科学与文明”这一经典议题，在文明的视域中认识科学的意义，在科学的基础上构建文明的养育，为中国科学与中华文明的发展注入新的思想生机和活力。

本次讲座获得了“北京大学海外名家讲学计划”的支持，我们非常荣幸地邀请了来自普林斯顿大学历史系的Anthony Grafton教授。此次讲座共有两个主题的内容，让我们共同跟随他的步伐，享受知识的饕餮！

主讲人

Anthony Grafton（普林斯顿大学历史系教授）

简介:

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. He joined Princeton University in 1975, after receiving his BA (1971) and PhD in history (1975) from the University of Chicago and spending a year at University College London under Arnaldo Momigliano. His research interests include the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from antiquity to the 19th century as well as the history of science and technology from antiquity to the Renaissance.

A prolific scholar with extensive scholarly output behind him, Prof. Grafton received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1993), the Balzan Prize in Humanities and History (2002) and the Mellon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement (2003). He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the British Academy. In 2011 he served as president of the American Historical Association.

Part.1

讲座信息：

时间：11月7日19:00 (GMT+8)

题目: History as Practice: The Discovery of the Past in Renaissance Europe

I: The Sciences and the Past: History and the Study of Nature

主持人：Daniele Macuglia（北京大学科学技术与医学史系助理教授）

与谈人：陈 昊 （北京大学科学技术与医学史系副教授）

ZOOM会议号：932 0813 4166 密码：710811

Part.2

Abstract:

Traditionally, historians have seen Renaissance humanism and Renaissance science as distinct pursuits. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries CE, humanists studied and corrected classical texts and argued about ancient history. Scientists, by contrast studied the heavens, the natural world, and the human body. They drew data and techniques from classical texts, but saw themselves as pursuing a specialized, technical inquiry into nature. Copernicus, for example, wrote in his On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543), that “mathematics is written for mathematicians.” This lecture will argue that separating humanism from science in this period is anachronistic. Engineers taught humanists that moderns were as ingenious as the ancients had been. Astronomers taught humanists that astronomical evidence could solve historical problems. And innovative practitioners of every science from natural history to medicine taught humanists that human culture had improved in the centuries since the end of the ancient world. Renaissance scholars developed a new sense of history: but they owed many of their insights to thinkers who specialized in the sciences.

Part.3

第二讲信息预告

时间：11月21日19:00 (GMT+8)

题目: History as Practice: The Discovery of the Past in Renaissance Europe

II: The Excavated Past: Relics and Antiquities

主持人：Daniele Macuglia（北京大学科学技术与医学史系助理教授）

与谈人：John N. Alekna （北京大学科学技术与医学史系助理教授）

编辑：张雪梅