《天工开物》是明代末年宋应星编辑的一部关于工农业生产技术的专门著作。它系统地总结了我国古代劳动人民丰富的生产经验和科学成就,是我国古代工农业生产技术的百科全书。书中继承了法家的“农战”和“人定胜天”的思想,批判了反动的孔孟之道。今天,我们用马克思主义的观点来评价这部三百多年前的科技著作,可以看出,作者是一位具有鲜明的法家思想和朴素的唯物主义观点的科学家。在明代,孔孟的儒家路线居于统 “Heavenly Creations” is the Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, edited by the editor of a book on industrial and agricultural production technology special works. It systematically summarizes the rich production experience and scientific achievements of the ancient working people in our country and is an encyclopedia of ancient industrial and agricultural production technologies in our country. The book inherited the legalist’s “agricultural war” and “people win the sky” thinking, criticized the reactionary Confucius and Mencius. Today, we appraise this scientific and technological work more than 300 years ago from the Marxist point of view. We can see that the author is a scientist who has a clear view of the lawyer and a simple materialism. In the Ming Dynasty, Confucius and Mencius’s Confucianist line resided in the same system