帮你找到了,你摘录的两段来自[美] 约翰·威廉斯《奥古斯都》John Buchan Augustus。你看的或许是上海人民出版社出版的译本。
"The Roman was no theologian, nor, in a constructive sense, a philosopher. Nor was he a scientist. He was a great inventor and builder, but in the speculative and theoretic side of science he had little interest. Men like the elder Cato, Varro, and the elder Pliny liked to record the curiosities of nature, but they had not the systematizing impulse, the restless passion for order, of the Greeks. Pure science seemed to the Roman a waste of time, though he welcomed applied science. So he was a good field naturalist but no biologist; a good engineer but a poor mathematician; a successful calendar-maker but an indifferent astronomer. He was a mighty traveller, but his serious geographical work was done for him by foreigners. He was a soldier and a conqueror, but he made no contribution of value to military science. "
"In everything he undertook he demanded a utilitarian purpose and a practical result. We find among the Greeks germinal concepts which are a vital part of modern thought. Pythagoras first taught that physical science was based on measurement and that therefore number was the key to the structure of the universe; Hippocrates laid down the cardinal principles of medicine; Archimedes founded hydrostatics; Anaxagoras and Aristarchus of Samos anticipated the modern doctrine of the nature of the sun and the rotation of the globe; Hipparchus, in 125 B.c., calculated the lunar month, and was no more than a second wrong from the modern point of view; Eratosthenes measured the earth’s circumference; in Aristotle, and in Empedocles before him, there is implicit the theory of evolution, and in Democritus the atomic theory. "
【 在 dagger 的大作中提到: 】
: 我不记得在哪里看过的,只是做了摘录,所以现在找出处
: 就如同您所说,这绝对不是随便从什么网络软文或者自媒体中出现的
: 后面还有一段大概这样的内容:
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