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Gravity's Eastern Voyage
We speak to the author, Dr Zhaoyuan Wan, to find out more about him and his recently published Notes and Records article.
It then follows the gradual dissemination of Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation after the Opium Wars, through various channels, including Protestant missionary publications, Chinese-Western collaborative translations, and eventually, integration into the national curriculum in the early 1900s. My doctoral research at Oxford, which focused on science and religion in late 19th and early 20th century China, provided me with a broader context to understand the complex interactions between Western scientific ideas and Chinese intellectual traditions. Examining how Newtonian ideas intersected with traditional Chinese cosmology and newly introduced religious concepts could provide a fascinating lens through which to view the complex negotiations between science, religion, and modernity in early 20th century China.
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