在中国历史上,利玛窦与徐光启一同被认为是向中国传入西方科学知识的关键人物,很早就被一些中国学者推为输入西学的“首功者”。①与此形成鲜明对照的是,帮助彼得大帝创办专科学校的英国数学家、航海学家法夸尔森(H.Farquharson)在俄罗斯的知名度很低,几乎无人知晓这位在俄国终老的外国人为俄国做了怎样的贡献。而曾与他在同一所学校共事的俄国 In China’s history, Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi together are considered as key figures in introducing western scientific knowledge to China and were pushed by some Chinese scholars as “the chief contributor” for importing western sciences. In stark contrast, H.Farquharson, a British mathematician and navigator who helped to set up a college for Peter the Great, had a very low profile in Russia, and almost no one knew that the oldest foreign country in Russia What kind of contribution did man made to Russia? Russia, who had worked with him at the same school