19世纪末中国思想界有一场争论,就是中学和西学之争。所谓中学就是传统的孔孟之道,西学具体内容是“声光化电”,就是今天的自然科学。现在又有人用“中学”“西学”的概念来谈中西方之间的学术交流。其实,“学”本身无所谓中和西几何学中国历史上没有过,它在埃及出现,在希腊形 At the end of the 19th century, there was a debate among Chinese thought circles about the controversy between middle school and western learning. The so-called middle school is the traditional way of Confucius and Mencius. The specific content of western learning is “acousto-optic electricity”, which is today’s natural science. Now people use the concept of “middle school” and “western learning” to talk about academic exchanges between China and the West. Actually, “learning” does not matter in itself. Western Geometry has never been seen in Chinese history. It appeared in Egypt,