• 活動時間:
  • 2025-07-10 14:00 ~ 15:30
  • 2025-07-11 14:00 ~ 15:30

2025寰宇漢學講座

第四場
講者：安俟堂（Lorenzo Andolfatto，中央研究院近代史研究所訪問學人）
講題：十九世紀中國近代天文學研究的資料來源概述（Sources for the Study of Modern Astronomy in 19th-century China: An Overview）
主持人：汪榮祖（美國維吉尼亞州立大學歷史系榮退教授）
時間：2025年7月10日（週四）14:00-15:30
地點：國家圖書館藝文中心3樓301室（臺北市中山南路20號）
備註：本場演講以英文進行
※以上會議時間如有變動，本中心將依報名資料另行通知

演講摘要：
So far, the circulation of Western astronomical knowledge in modern China has largely been studied through the lens of the ''eastward spread of Western learning'' and the role that Jesuit missionaries played in the integration of Western mathematical models in the Chinese knowledge system. However, the gradual decline of the Jesuit order in Europe as well as the Qing court's ''[lack of] incentive to go beyond the needs of the calendar'' slowly relegated astronomy as a secondary science to which less and less attention was paid. This was not the case in Europe, where technological improvements in instrumentation led to more accurate sky observations, new discoveries, and novel cosmological theories and methods that expanded the spatial and temporal coordinates of the known universe. As the European colonial presence in China intensified in the mid-19th century, modern astronomy began to gain traction in the Chinese context, reshaping existing knowledge systems and opening new venues for thought. Taking Kang Youwei's Zhutian jiang as its starting point, this lecture explores the extended network of sources through which new astronomical knowledge took hold in the epistemic context of turn-of-the-century China, as once-authoritative truths were disputed and traditional knowledge re-evaluated in light of modern science.

主講人簡介：
Lorenzo Andolfatto is a senior researcher and translator currently based at Academia Sinica's Institute of Modern History. His research interests include early-modern and contemporary Chinese fiction, translation, and intellectual history, with a focus on utopian writing and literary geographies. He is the author of several peer-reviewed articles as well as the monograph Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902-1910 (Brill, 2019).

第五場
講者：全勇勳（Jun, Yong Hoon，韓國學中央研究院人文學部教授）
講題：西方宇宙論的傳入及東亞知識分子的反應（The Introduction of Western Cosmology and the Invention of Earth's rotation in East Asia）
主持人：祝平一（中央研究院歷史語言研究所研究員）
時間：2025年7月11日（週五）14:00-15:30
地點：國家圖書館藝文中心3樓301室（臺北市中山南路20號）
備註：本場演講以韓文進行，現場會有中文翻譯
※以上會議時間如有變動，本中心將依報名資料另行通知

演講摘要：
本論文通過考察17至19世紀中·朝兩國數位儒學家所留下的文獻，闡明他們提出「地轉說」的具體思想脈絡與構想過程。
自17世紀初西方同心天球說傳入東亞以來，其理論中有兩點給本土儒學家帶來了巨大的思想衝擊：其一是天體為堅硬固體的觀念，其二是宇宙規模遠超想像的龐大。
對於固體天球說，東亞知識分子依據自身傳統的「氣」的宇宙論，大多予以批判和拒斥。但對於宇宙的龐大規模，他們則將其作為一個新的現象性事實加以接納。然而，正是對這一新事實的接納，讓他們開始質疑天體每日旋轉一周的合理性——因為在一個如此龐大的宇宙中，這意味著天體的旋轉速度將是不可思議的。
為了化解這一矛盾，中國與朝鮮的一些儒學家最終提出了以「地球旋轉」取代「天體旋轉」的解決方案。本文所探討的代表人物，包括中國的黃道周（1585-1646），以及朝鮮的李瀷（1681-1763）、金錫文（1658-1731）、洪大容（1731-1783）與丁若銓（1758-1816）等人。

This paper examines the materials left behind by several Confucian scholars in China and Joseon from the 17th to 19th centuries who proposed the idea of Earth's rotation. It aims to clarify the process of thought through which they arrived at this concept.
From the early 17th century, the Western cosmological model of concentric celestial spheres, introduced into East Asia by Jesuits, became widely known to Confucian intellectuals in China and Joseon. Within this cosmological framework, two notions in particular were perceived as shocking to East Asian Confucian scholars: one was the argument that the celestial sphere was a solid and rigid structure; the other was that the celestial sphere was unimaginably vast in scale.
Confucian intellectuals in East Asia, grounded in the cosmology of qi (氣), criticized and rejected the first argument. However, they accepted the second—that the universe was enormously vast—as an astronomical fact. Yet, once they accepted the vast scale of the universe, doubts arose about the Western theory of celestial motion, which claimed that the entire heavenly spheres rotate once every day. The speed required for such rotation was deemed incomprehensible.
As a result, several Confucian scholars in China and Joseon proposed the idea of ''Earth's rotation'' as an alternative to ''heaven's rotation.'' Key figures who contributed to this idea included Huang Daozhou (黃道周, 1585-1646) in China, and Yi Ik (李瀷, 1681-1763), Kim Seok-mun (金錫文, 1658-1731), Hong Dae-yong (洪大容, 1731-1783), and Jeong Yak-jeon (丁若銓, 1758-1816) in Joseon.

主講人簡介：
Professor, The Academy of Korean Studies (韓國學中央硏究院), Republic of Korea. He has a specialty in the history of Astronomy, Confucian natural studies, and the introduction of western science by Jesuits in East Asia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University, Korea and had post-doctoral research years in Needham Research Institute, U.K. and Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan. He published articles and books such as: History of Astronomy in Korea 韓國天文學史 (2017), ''Circulation of Wanwu-zhenyuan 萬物眞原 and Criticism of Western Knowledge'' (2021), ''Calendar 曆書and Calendar Annotations 曆註 in Korea'' (2021), ''A Comparison of Korean and Japanese Scholars' Attitude toward Newtonian Science'' (2013), ''The introduction of Western calendar system 時憲曆 in Joseon'' (2009), and etc.

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主辦單位: 漢學研究中心