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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.214, pp.121, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

著者

川和田 晶子

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.215, pp.129-143, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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Harumi Shibukawa accomplished in 1684 the first domestic calendar-reform, the Jyokyo Kaireki that enabled him to get the newly established post in the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tenmon-Kata, specializing in the calender making and astronomical observation. Though several studies have been made on the scientific achievement of Harumi in modern Japan, many of them lack the synthetic approach to the astronomical knowledge at that time, paying little attention to such points as Nee-Confucianism and the social values in Pre-modern Japan. Jinzan Tani, a Confucian scholar who resided in Tosa and had long been eager to take astronomical lecture from Harumi, began in 1694 to correspond with Harumi in Yedo. He mastered all course of Harumi's astronomy in eight years and classified the correspondence under such topics as the reckoning adopted in Jyokyo calendar, the motion of the seven planets, the measuring longitudinal difference between Kyoto and Kagoshima, the phenomena of solar and lunar eclipse and Shintoism. He also compiled some books or rolls. Analysis of these records leads us to understand how the astronomical knowledge was transmitted in the beginning of the 18th century in Japan. Harumi's lecture covered not only the scientific measurements of the time and space but also the metaphysical importance of the pursuit of universe. Also we can see Harumi was under the influence of the thought of Ansai Yamazaki, who had sterted as a Zhuzi Confucian and later formed the Suika-Shintoism that advocated perfect correlation of the Heaven and the Ground. Harumi's pupils transmitted both the astronomical technologies and the knowledge of the Suika-Shintoism to the people in their home country. They contributed much to the education of natural sciences and moralities in the provinces.

著者

蔵原 三雪

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.215, pp.144-153, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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W. E. Griffis (1843-1926) was an American Yatoi science teacher in early Meiji Japan. He had gotten into Rutgers College in 1865. Rutgers College added a new scientific school to become New Jersey's land-grant institution in 1865. And so Rutgers College, the classical course, reformed his curriculum. The new curriculum was called the new scientific curriculum. Because it included new modern scientific subjects. W. E. Griffis was belong to the classical course and studied classics, and new scientific subjects, chemistry and physics, there. He had been interested in chemistry which Prof. George H. Cook had taught in his laboratory. He took the Bachelor of Arts in 1869. After he had decided to be a science teacher in Japan, he took the special course of Rutgers' Scientific School for about a month in October 1870. The special course was set up in 1869. It had two instruction programs for partial students and for students to want to take "the full program." The students of the special course was able to study to do experiments in chemistry by Prof. G. H. Cook. W. E. Griffis seems to have made experiments in Blowpipe Analysis, Chemical Analysis-Qualitative, Chemical Analysis-Qualitative and Quantitative, etc as a partial students. So W. E. Griffis could teach chemistry and physics to Japanese students who had never learned modern natural sciences. The students showed deep in the new scientific subjects. Some of them had been science teachers and scientists. W. E. Griffis was a pioneer of science teachers in Japan. In this paper I want .to discuss the historical background and his modern scientific knowledge which W. E. Griffis contributed to modern Japanese education.

著者

石田 文彦 小島 浩治

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.215, pp.154-164, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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This study attempts to grasp the actual situation of the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka (Industrial Chemistry Course) in Niigata School and also deals with the process and background of closing in 1880, 4 years after its establishment. 56 students were admitted to the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka in total and 17 students completed this course. The main academic subject was analytical chemistry and the promotion of the textile industry and the petroleum industry was targeted. In the Niigata Prefectural Assembly, the closing of the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka was decided for the reason that the major industry of Niigata Prefecture is agriculture and industrial chemistry is not so pressing and students are a few in reality. Local leaders, members of the Prefectural Assembly, who actually promote policy standing between local officials and local inhabitants and best know the community, believe that a policy promoting industry by means of industrial chemistry, proposed by local government officials is impractical and the actual requisite is agriculture. Investigating the situation of the textile industry and the petroleum industry in Niigata Prefecture in those days, we pointed out that both industries were not in a situation to receive engineers who studied industrial chemistry and it was 1900's after about 25 years that these engineers were to be demanded.

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.215, pp.165-170, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

著者

木本 忠昭 石井 修三 三輪 修三

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.215, pp.171-181, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.215, pp.182-190, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

著者

野村 正雄

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日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.216, pp.193-201, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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This starts to elucidate the meaning of the tables on European-Japanese weights and measures attached to Hoashi's book Kyuri-tsu(1836). This tables rely mainly on the Dutch source book Algemeene Aardrijksbeschrijuing (General Geography) written by J. de Gelder in 1803-1808. Comparing Hoashi's tables with the corresponding source tables and checking Hoashi's conversion to Japanese units, where every number was presented with around seven figures, reveals considerable miscopies and miscalculations. Analysis of the numeral errors allows us to speculate how frequently numeral errors occurred in each of the editing processes such as transcribing original arabic figures into Japanese figures, calculating by means of Japanese abacus and making reprints to be handed down.

著者

村田 忠一

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日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.213, pp.37-40, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

著者

塚原 東吾

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日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.213, pp.41-46, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

出版者

日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.213, pp.47, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

著者

中村 邦光

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日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.214, pp.65-76, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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Results of our surveys and research show that most of the scholars of Rangaku (Dutch Studies) and Kokugaku (national studies) in the latter half of Japan's Edo era (1615-1868) gained an awareness of nature in Western science by compromise and fusion based on their traditional Japanese awareness of nature. It is clear that that process took a completely different course from that of receiving difficult and abstract concepts by high-velocity imitation to understand modern scientific theories such as thermal motion during the Meiji era (1868-1912). The points of similarity and points common in the everyday, experiential understanding of nature were recognized no matter whether that understanding was Eastern or Western and compromise and assimilation could be accepted on the basis of that understanding. However, there were logical inconsistencies for acceptance through compromise and assimilation of modern Western scientific concepts such as the theory of thermal motion and modern dynamics, which were based on an awareness totally different from the conventional awareness of nature that existed in Japan during the Edo era. Thus, it is logical that the only way to receive these in the Meiji era would be through wholesale imitation. We could say that in the Japanese thinking of the Meiji era, "imitation was the source of creativity." Therefore, there is major significance of the dialectical development of imitation and creativity from the Meiji era to the process of Japanese modernization.

著者

任 正爀

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.214, pp.77-87, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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In this paper, the Kon-ton bun-pan zu-setu by SIZUKI Tadao that is well known as the original theory for the formation of solar system in Japan at the 18th century is discussed in detail. Firstly the analogy with the nebular hypothesis by Kant is pointed out. Although Shizuki applies a few principle of the Newton mechanics, the Kon-ton bun-pan zu-setu is characterized as natural philosopy because it is rooted in the "ch'i " that is a traditional cosept in the Oriental philosophy. By comparison of the cosmology by HON tae-yong who was a practical sciensist in Korea with the cosmology by Shizuki the stage of oriental cosmology in the 18th century is indicated.

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川村 豊

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.214, pp.88-98, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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In this paper I discussed the Japanese Naval radar research and development program and the mobilization of science and technology during WWII. The Radio Research Department (Denpa Kenkyu-Bu) which was the new radar research and development department was established in Naval Technical Research Institution (Kaigun Gijyutu Kenkyu-jyo) at July 1943. Many outside scientists and engineers were appointed into the a part time civil servants (Shokutaku) who were conformed to the naval 1942's Shokutaku rules. RRD was able to use this rule for their own intention, and some of Shokutaku began to study the basic research of micro wave and basic radar technology, so naval radar program improved to the research and development style. But there was the double appointed problem which Army employed the same specialists. And then, The direction of naval radar program was submitted by Gunrei-Bu (Japanese naval high-ranking officials) using the plan of her military preparedness, so this program was able to be a large scale project. But this program was changed their direction repeatedly because of the war situation and then Japanese naval radar program got weaken gradually.

著者

石田 文彦 小島 浩治

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日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.214, pp.99-107, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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This study deals with the progress and background of establishing the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka (Industrial Chemistry Course) in Niigata School, the purpose of Hyakukou Kagaku Ka and its curriculums, etc. Niigata School for English-language was established by Governor Masataka Kusumoto in 1872, and it was the origin of secondary school in Niigata Prefecture. Kusumoto attempted to fix and develop secondary education with Niigata School, however, it became difficult to secure students owing to the competition with National Niigata School of English Studies established later. Governor Moriteru Nagayama, newly appointed under such circumstances, established the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka in Niigata School in 1876 with a model of the Seisaku Gaku Kyouzyou (Industrial Course) in National Tokyo Kaisei School with an intention of promoting the secondary education and industry in Niigata Prefecture. On the background where Niigata School and Hyakukou Kagaku Ka were established, we pointed out that Kusumoto and Nagayama, local government officials sent from the central government, had a policy achieving a national enrichment through promoting industry.

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中村 邦光 兵藤 友博 高橋 哲郎 矢島 道子 永田 英治

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日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.214, pp.108-117, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

著者

島原 健三

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日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.214, pp.118-120, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

著者

渡邊 洋之

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日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.213, pp.1-10, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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This paper attempts to explain a part of history related to the protection of wildlife and biological diversity by analyzing a certain person's view of nature. It picks out a zoologist,Shozaburo WATASE (1862-1929). WATASE's two activities, namely to enthusiastically introduce living things and to protect wildlife by establishing and designating natural monuments, seem to us to be a contradiction now. But by analyzing WATASE's discourse, I think they are not. WATASE's arguments for his two activities had trust in the "power of human work" in common. And they commonly set human beings in the absolute position in which he believed they could control nature. Moreover, it has become obvious that both of WATASE's arguments for his two activities were connected with Japanese colonial rules at that time. This fact suggests that to intend to conquer nature or to have trust in exercising the "power of human work" over nature is related to colonial rules, which are the intention and action to expand one's own sphere and rule others. And I think this fact also raises a question for reflective work on the way science should be, because we can regard biology, a part of science, as a form of exercising of the "power of human work".

著者

藤田 康元

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.213, pp.11-19, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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Edwin Powell Hubble is famous for the discovery of the linear relation between nebulae distances and redshifts, and he is often referred to as a discoverer of "the expanding universe". In fact the relation was received as an empirical evidence for the theory of expanding universe by many scientists within a few year after Hubble had showed it in his 1929's paper. However Hubble never regarded it as self-evident that nebulae redshifts were caused by Doppler effect of nebulae recession. In principle redshift can be produced if light quanta lose energy by some unknown mechanisms on their path from nebulae to us (tired light hypothesis). Hubble never supported only one side of interpretations of redshift, and claimed whether nebulae were actually receding or not must be solved by observation. Moreover,, with R. C. Tolman, Hubble elaborated methods of investigating the nature of the nebulae redshift. Why was he so careful? Hubble often stated his empiric view of science such as agreement is secured by means of observation and experiment. In this respect he sharply contrasted with Arthur Eddington who was a Hubble's comtemporary and enthusiast for the theory of expanding universe. We, however, can not make his empiricism substancial as a unique cause of his careful attitude. We need to see wider context of Hubble's scientific activity. First he had a tool for solving the problem. A new telescope was being constructed in the 1930's. And he played a social role to present scientific problems the 200 inch reflector should challenge. In this strategic context, Hubble shaped the nature of redshifts as one of the major unsolved problems. In that process he used resources such as "tired light hypothesis", a cosmic age contradiction, empirical view of science, new telescope it self. Conversely, the redshifts problem was used as a resource justifying the construction of the 200 inch. These resources can be seen as constraints at the same time which canalized Hubble's activities to a certain direction.

著者

株本 訓久

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日本科学史学会

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科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

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vol.39, no.213, pp.20-29, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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Kiyotugu HIRAYAMA's role in the history of Astronomy in Japan is examined in light of his work on the families of asteroid. In addition to this work, he also published two papers about stellar evolution in 1931. In these he suggested the capture hypothesis theory whereby a star gets mass and energy from the nebulae which captured it. This theory differed significantly from the accepted contemporary theory in two points related to energy source and evolution. The theory linked the source of the energy in stars with Mayer's fall theory and Helmholtz's contraction theory. HIRAYAMA thought that this theory could explain the formation of all stars, including binary stars and star clusters, and even the whole solar system. At that time in Japan, S, TAKEDA's studies of stellar evolution applied mass annihilation theory based on relativity theory. However K. HIRAYAMA didn't apply annihilation theory. Given a dynamic astronomical point of view, it was natural for K. HIRAYAMA to have applied the capture hypothesis rather than the mass annihilation theory. This theory seemed to be farsighted in terms of regarding the solar system formation as a common star one, but we couldn't reduce this so simply, because he suggested his theory on the condition that many stars were in proximity at the formation of binary stars, and star cluster. His theory is similar to Shinzo SHINJYO's theory in that he applied his theory to all stellar evolution. It is interesting to note that they went on to form the non-plusation theory of Cepheid variables from this theory.