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1、Lecture2Sci-techTranslationintheLateMingDynastyandtheEarlyQingDynastyInthisperiodlastingmorethanonehundredyears,thewesternmissionaries,withthecollaboratedeffortoftheChinesescholars,translatednumerousbooksonnaturalsciencesintoChinese,apartfromChristiantexts.Thetranslationinthisperiodwasmainlysci-
2、techtranslationcoveringnearlyeverybranchofnaturalsciencesandwasdonethroughthecollaborationofwesternJesuitsandChineseelites.Andthisisthesalientcharacteristicsofthetideoftranslationinthisperiod.Renownedtranslatorswere:代表人物:MatteoRicci利玛窦,JohannAdamSchallvonBell汤若望,FerdinandVerbiest(南怀仁),JulesAleni
3、艾儒略etc.amongtheforeignJesuitmissionariesandXuGuangqi徐光启、LiZhizao李之藻、YangTingjun杨庭筠、LiTianjing李天经etc.amongtheChineseelites.利玛窦(MatteoRicci,1552—1610)AnItalianJesuit,asinologistandatranslator.HecametoChinain1582andwentoutofhiswaytomakefriendswithChinesescholarsandofficialsinordertoconvertthemintoC
4、hristiansandgainafootholdinchina.Hearrayedstrikingclock,tripleprism,armillarysphere(自鸣钟、三棱镜、浑天仪)andhungthemapoftheworldinhisabodetoattractvisitors.TheworldmapshatteredtheChinese’sdie-hardbeliefthatChinawasthecenterofthewholeworld.Lateron,XueGuangqi(徐光启)wrote《山海舆地图经解》,interpretingthemapinChinesel
5、anguage,whichbecamethefirstbookondisseminatingwesternscientificknowledge.OnSeptember22,1596MatteoRiccisuccessfullyforecastedasolareclipse(日食)inChina,andquicklybecamewell-known.MatteoRicci,workingtogetherwithXuGuangqi,translatedthefirstsixvolumesofEuclid’sElements(欧几里得《几何原本》前六卷)in1607.Hewasalsoth
6、efirsttotranslatesomeoftheFourBooksintoLatin,beingthefirsttointroduceChineseclassicsintothewesternworld.&&ThecomingofMatteoRiccikindledtheenthusiasmofChinesescholarstolearnwesternknowledge.AndfromthenonChinesescholarsbecameopen-mindedanddevelopedaninterestinlearningfromthewesterncountries,whicha
7、saresulttouchedofftheideologicalrevolutionoftheChinesepeoplethatlastedformorethanonecentury.汤若望(JohannAdamSchallvonBell1591-1666)AGerman,whocametoBeijingin1623.FollowingtheexampleofMatteoRicci,hedisplayedthescientificinstrum