Research On Combination Of Chinese And Western Elements Of Xue Fengzuo

This essay mainly made research on how Chinese and western sciences integrates and on how its features and thoughts are like in Lixuehuitong authored by Xue fengzuo.This book collected the contemporary relatively advanced scientific knowledge and became a famous one in combination of Chinese and Western elements. Because of this book, Xue fengzuo was extinguished in the combination between China and West in the connection period of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The main contents of this essay are as follows:First, introduced Xue's career and his main book Lixuehuitong briefly and evaluated his influence in the early Qing scholastic area.Second, tried to give out the meanings and causes of combination occurred in the connection period of Ming and Qing Dynasties by analyzing the background of it. On this basis, this essay tried to trace the formation course of Xue's combination thoughts from his school career and his learning broadly from China and West, and tried to analyze the relation between Xue fengzuo and Xu guangqi in combination thoughts.Third, made comparison of different combination ways between Xu guangqi, Wang xichan and Xue fengzuo. The former scholars mainly researched Xue's astronomical calendar work. But in fact, Xue's content of combination was quite abundant, it covered the majority of subjects in the contemporary western and Chinese combination, his valuable combination thoughts were not given enough emphasis in the scholastic area. This essay pointed out that Xue's combination was quite unique in the lots of scholars in the connection period of Ming and Qing Dynasties. This essay analyzed Xue's combination structure into three parts. This classification generalized the...