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神父,还是科学家建国?--美国国父们的科学素养
Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison (Paperback)
by I. Bernard Cohen
study shows that America's Founding Fathers were true citizens of the Age of Reason who sought links between scientific principles and constitutional government. Thomas Jefferson, naturalist and inventor, had a consuming passion for scientific pursuits ranging from paleontology to zoology. The Declaration of Independence, which he wrote, reverberates with echoes of Newtonian science, as when he invokes "self-evident" truths or "laws of nature." Benjamin Franklin, far from being a mere tinkerer or inventor, pioneered the science of electricity. Franklin also developed a demographic theory that North America would become a population center of the British world; this led to the policy according to which the British annexed Canada rather than Guadeloupe as the spoils in the war against the French (1754-63). John Adams, who studied astronomy and physics at Harvard, was a founder of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston. And James Madison, a devoted amateur scientist, drew on scientific metaphors and analogies in his Federalist articles.
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o 千万不要鼓吹什么“没有基督教,就没有美国民主”的倒果为因。 dck [0 b] 2007-03-25 02:07:52 [点击: 0] (681548)
o 如果不是在思想上突破了中世纪的政教合一,美国恐怕不会如此成功
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