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我第一次接触到郑公盾新近出版的书《中国科学文艺史话》(2014)完全靠运气。我在参加一个由北京大学主办的研讨会时碰巧遇到了他的女儿郑立中(中国科学院研究员)。会上,我做了一个环境科学方面的发言,主要是谈新的回收技术以及生物炭的发展和利用,其间我提到古代文学的励志作用及现代科学和文化的重要性,特别谈及易经和八卦在西方的二进制数学发展中所起的作用及其带给莱布尼兹(十七八世纪早期德国数学家和哲学家)的
For the first time, I came into contact with Zheng Gongdun’s recently published book, “History of Chinese Scientific Literature and Art” (2014), relying solely on luck. When I attended a seminar hosted by Peking University, I happened to meet his daughter Zheng Lizhong (researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences). At the meeting, I made a speech on environmental science mainly on new recycling technologies and the development and utilization of biochar. During this period, I mentioned the inspirational role of ancient literature and the importance of modern science and culture, The function of Scripture and gossip in the development of western mathematics and the significance it brings to Leibniz (German mathematicians and philosophers in the early 1700s)