近代工业革命以来,专业化分工的潜规则早已渗透到学术研究各领域,而《文明的支点:科技发展与世界现代化进程》一书在整体框架上突破了自然科学和社会科学的两界壁垒,对若干文理交叉的前沿问题进行了深入探讨,凸显出其“杂交优势”的特色,也在相当程度上复原了自然科学和社会科学历史上浑然一体的原貌。 Since the Industrial Revolution, the unspoken rules of specialized division of labor have infiltrated into all fields of academic research. However, the book entitled “The fulcrum of civilization: the development of science and technology and the modernization of the world” has broken through the barriers between the two social sciences and social sciences in the overall framework, In-depth discussions were made on a number of cutting-edge issues concerning the intersection of arts and sciences, highlighting the features of its “hybrid superiority” and restoring to a fair degree the original appearance of the natural history of science and social science.