『物理階梯』の編者片山淳吉の生涯

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Junkichi Katayama was a famous editor of textbooks in the early Meiji Era. His Butsuri Kaitei, which means Lesson on Physics, first published in 1872 was translated and edited from R. G. Parker's First Lesson in Natural Philosophy, G. P. Quackenbos' Natural Philosophy, A. Ganot's Natural Philosophy and so on. As this was the first textbook of physics in Japan, it had a great influence on the science education. His details of life had been unknown, but recently the author discovered the many important materials, which included his portrait, some manuscripts, his letters, Kakejiku drawn by him, his friend's letter on the funeral of Junkichi, etc. Through these materials we can know his life in detail. He was born of poor Samurai in Maizuru in 1837. When he was 27 years old, he went to Edo to study modern science by order of his lord. He studied English under Yukichi Fukuzawa and Akiyoshi Mitsukuri. Then he became the lecturer of Daigaku Nankou, which was only university in Japan at that time, and after that he successively served as a member of the textbook-editorial office of the Department of Education, where his Butsuri Kaitei was edited, and a translator of the Government Office because the editorial office discontinued soon. From 1876, he perhaps had lived by the pen. His writings are 20 kinds and 46 volumes in all and almost of them are translated and edited from English. He had contributed richly to enlighten Japanese on modern science through these books. But, he died of a disease in 1887.
日本科学史学会の論文
1985-07-29

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岡本正志
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『物理階梯』の編者片山淳吉の生涯

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