明末清初西方近代科学技术向中国的传播,是在一种复杂的世界历史背景下进行的。历史真会开玩笑,欧州十六世纪文艺复兴以后蓬勃发展起来的科学文化,到十七世纪,竞由一些传教士带到了东方来。尽管传教士的活动带有浓厚的迷信色彩和殖民主义味道,但是,他们确实给中国带来了西方的先进文明,这就是所谓“西学东渐”。 The spread of Western modern science and technology to China in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was carried out under a complex historical background of the world. History really joke that the European science and culture flourished after the Renaissance in the 16th century and by the 17th century competed by some missionaries to the East. Although missionaries have a very superstitious and colonialist flavor, they did bring China advanced western civilization, which is called “learning from west to east.”