一　　宋应星,字长庚,江西奉新人,生于明万历中叶(一五九七年左右),卒于清顺治末年。他是我国十七世纪杰出的科学家,著有《画音归正》、《天工开物》等几种著作。其中《天工开物》一书被称为我国古代科学技术的“百科全书”。　　科学的发展,一方面服从于阶级斗争和生产斗争的 A song should be star, the word Chang Geng, Jiangxi Feng new, born in the middle of the Wanli calendar (around 1597), died in Qing Shunzhi the last year. He is an outstanding scientist of our country in the seventeenth century and is the author of several works such as “Sounds Rectification” and “Heavenly Creations”. Among them, “Heavenly Creations” is known as the “encyclopedia” of ancient Chinese science and technology. The development of science is subordinate to the class struggle and the struggle for production on the one hand