Evolution Of The Western Scientific View Of History

Since ancient times, science as a way of understanding the world of mankind and a basic human practice, to measure their level of development has become everyday life, human and social development and marks the progress of civilization. Especially in the contemporary, military and economic power as an important measure of whether the State standards, it is inseparable from the development of more science and technology continues to progress. In the U.S., as the U.S. national philosophy of pragmatism, emphasizing the value of people as the center, advocating practical effect as the yardstick to promote the practice philosophy, under the influence of such thinking in the United States proposed the "Project 2061", a comprehensive improve the scientific concept of all Americans, this is almost fully reflects the American view of science. Americans pay attention to scientific, in the "Science for all Americans," a book full embodiment of the American concept of big science. In 1999, the convening of the World Science University, declared the era of science. In knowledge and technology-led future today, the analysis of the scientific outlook is particularly important, we should learn from the United States found itself among the successful development of a positive factor conditions, a deep awareness and understanding of the scientific concept of Western society, and Marxist thought establish their own under the guidance of scientific concept, the development of our country become prosperous and modern socialist power.Through the course of development of Western scientific view of the description of the scholars from the West understands of science to illustrate the formation of a scientific view point. Western view of science in ancient Greek natural philosophy began to take shape in respect to the medieval science as a handmaiden of theology has had a dark period, followed by the rise of the Renaissance and with the victory of the experiment and practical application of scientific theory-based Civilization began its new era. To the concept of modern science gradually generalized encyclopedic view of science and half of the 19th century the production of the Marxist view of science, on the later had a profound impact. Early 20th century, the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, represented by the emergence of new physics can be regarded as the beginning of modern science. In 1938, Sociology of Science established the main framework by Merton, and in 1939, as published in Science, Bernal founder of "scientific social function," a book for the scientific view of the culmination, it is recognized that the scientific concept of important role in the development of science. To promote the development of science and technology view of the evolution of modern science, the scientific view of evolution, in turn, accelerated the process of understanding the world. How to sort out the scientific concept of history and logic of context is a very big challenge. So for the Scientific Study of view, stand on the broad perspective of the concept of science to study the scientific concept, it is particularly important.