翻开湖南教育出版社出版的《中国物理学史大系·力学史》卷,不仅为其诸多彩色图、文内插图所吸引,更为它娓娓道来的力学史内容而不忍释卷。 笔者曾以为中国古代力学无非是简单机械、重心、浮力之类,翻开《力学史》方知其内容远远超出想像之外,在晶体、材料、振动理论和动力学知识方面,中国都有许多成就,甚而一些成就乃属于近代科学产生之后,即十八九世纪之间近 The publication of “The History of the History of Chinese Physics, Mechanics of History” published by Hunan Education Publishing House is not only attracted to many of its color pictures and illustrations, but also unmanageable volumes of its history of mechanics. I once thought that ancient Chinese mechanics is nothing more than a simple mechanical, gravity, buoyancy and the like, opened the “history of mechanics” to know its contents far beyond the imagination, in the crystal, materials, vibration theory and kinetic knowledge, China has Many achievements, even some of the achievements, came after the emergence of modern science, that is, between the eighteenth century