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本文评析了美国学者奥尔德著的《万物之尺》一书,指出该书阐释了统一计量制度在推动国家统一、经济贸易、社会公平方面所具有的重要意义,揭示了近代计量制度的标志———米制得以在法国诞生的历史原因,再现了法国学者德朗布尔和梅尚两人在法国大革命期间测量地球周长以确定米的单位长度所经历的艰难困苦及达致的历史功绩,展示了米制在法国和在世界范围内得以承认的坎坷历程。该书对普及计量文化具有重要的价值,但该书所谓的其对历史秘密的惊人发现实则隐含了作者对计量单位本质的误解。此外,该书对若干计量历史问题的阐释也有一些明显的错误。
This essay analyzes the book “All Things” published by the American scholar Alder, pointing out that this book expounds the significance of the unified measurement system in promoting national unification, economic trade and social equity, and reveals the symbol of modern measurement system The historical reasons for the birth of the Metric system in France reproduce the hardships experienced by the French scholar Dranglborough and Messer in the measurement of the Earth’s perimeter during the French Revolution to determine the unit length of the meter and to achieve historical merits. Demonstrating the bumpy course in which rice was recognized in France and around the world. The book is of great value to popularizing the measurement culture, but what the book calls its astonishing discovery of historical secrets in fact implies an author’s misunderstanding of the nature of the measurement unit. In addition, the book also made some obvious mistakes in the interpretation of several historical issues of measurement.