哥伦布以及其他航海家在15世纪末、16世纪初的海外探险,不仅为“旧大陆”提供了从美洲的似乎是无穷无尽的自然宝藏中攫取财富的机会,同时也遇到了具有新的解释形式、新的文化形式和社会组织形式的不同民族。葡萄牙航海家们对此的描述,对于建立现代欧洲科学基础的思想模式起了重要作用。 The overseas exploration of Columbus and other navigators in the late 15th and early 16th centuries not only provided the “Old World” with the opportunity to seize wealth from the seemingly inexhaustible treasure of the Americas, but also with new forms of interpretation, Different cultures in the form of new cultures and social organizations. The description of this by navigators in Portugal played an important role in establishing the ideological model of modern European science.