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中国古代有没有计时科学?当然有,而且一度非常先进。《红楼梦》里的“红豆词”就有一句:挨不明更漏。打更就是和欧洲铃钟塔相应的报时系统,而漏就是水钟。可是很惭愧的是,一直到最近,中国历史学者对本国科学发展的兴趣似乎要比对中国某皇帝喜宠的妃子的衣著或身材还要小,比如,对中国古代科学第一个作系统性研究的人是英国人李约瑟(Joseph Needham),他写的七大卷《中国科学及文化史》(1954年英国剑桥书局出版)奠定
There is no timing science in ancient China? Of course, and was once very advanced. “Dream of Red Mansions” in the “red beans words” there is one: to suffer an unknown leak. To change is the bell system and the corresponding European bell timekeeping system, and the drain is the water bell. However, it is ashamed that, until recently, Chinese historians seem to have less interest in the development of science in their own country than the concubines or bodies of a certain emperor in China. For example, the first systematic study of ancient Chinese science The researcher was British Joseph Needham, who wrote seven volumes of “History of Chinese Science and Culture” (Cambridge, England, 1954)