| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺中師範學院 === 自然科學教育學系碩士班 === 91 === The subject of this thesis is to analyze the physical property, published property and content property of the “Introduction to Natural Science”. In this research adopt the documentary and content analysis as the research method. Moreover we choose ten Chinese edition of “Introduction to Nature Science” as the objects of content analysis.
In general speaking, the results of that the research revealed the differences of physical property of each book, such as the printing and layout style, are unobvious. There were no differences existing in content attribute, such as diagrams, exercises and references before or after each chapter. But the page count, paper material and price are apparent different. So far as the scientists’ nationalities of these ten publications are concerned, the western scientists are in the majority and total count of them is 376. But only Aristotle of Stageira (384-322B.C.) and Isaac Newton (1642-1727) were mentioned concurrently in all of these books. It shows that the favorites toward scientists of these editors or authors are different. Moreover, these scientists’ chronicle presented in books that were merely adequate and much of them showed different translation names of the same scientists. All books were focus on the theories, research contributions and inventions. Among the ten textbooks, only two have special sections to describe the science history, but without detailed introduction of scientists’ life and interactivities.
When the nature of science is mentioned in the introduction section, the items that meet fair level are “there is no definite method for science”, “the science knowledge needs to be verified experimentally”, “the science knowledge has temporality”, “the science research would be affected by social culture and religion” and “the science development should obey moral”. However, the content of science history and the nature of science are pretty different between these textbooks. Finally, we provide several suggestions for the references to editors, authors, teachers, readers and future studies concerning to these sorts of textbooks.
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