新島襄と科学

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Joseph Neesima is supposed to have been the first Japanese to take B. Sc. degree abroad. Before going abroad, he was one of the earliest to study Western mathematics and art of navigation systematically at the Naval College of the Bakufu in 1860s. For seven years since entering the Naval College through graduation from Amherst College, Mass., mathematics was his major studies. At the final year at Amherst he studied differential and integral calculus, being one of the earliest Japanese to study them abroad. At Amherst he got interested in geology, the representative science of the United States in those days, of which interest he kept throughout his life. As Amherst was still under influences of natural theology, it was quite natural for him to move to Andover Theological Seminary to study theology after studying science at Amherst. His concern about the evolutionary theory seems to have emerged from natural theological atmosphere in New England.
日本科学史学会の論文
1986-08-19