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1949年,尚未落成的拉费尔斯学院(现名新加坡大学)新图书馆,收到了一整套(《伦敦皇家学会哲学论坛》杂志(1662～1930年)。当时,我正在该学院工作,负责保管这套漂亮的用小牛皮精装的哲学学报。我十年一叠地把它们放在床头的一排书架上。之后,我用了一年时间,把它们从头到尾通读了一遍,从中我受到了作为一个科学史家的启蒙教育。作为副产品,我发现,这一叠叠的哲学学报,靠墙竟堆成了一条完美的指数曲线。后来,我又统计了所有其他我所能找到的各种期刊,发现这条增长
In 1949, the unfinished Lavins College (now University of Singapore) new library received a complete set (“Royal Society of London Philosophy Forum” magazine (1662 ~ 1930), when I was working at the college, Keeping this beautiful philosophical journal, hardcover in calfskin, I placed them on the bank of bookshelf every ten years, and after that I spent a year reading them from beginning to end, I was enlightened as a historian of science, and as a byproduct, I found out that this stack of philosophical journals built a perfect exponential curve against the wall, and later I counted all the other things I could find Various journals, discover this growth