英国李约瑟博士所著的《中国的科学和文明》共七卷,约八百多万字.1954年开始出版,1959年第三卷问世,其中有地质学部分.中文本由中国科学院自然科学史研究所王奎克同志于1963年译出,书名译为《中国科学技术史》,1976年10月科学出版社出版.编著《中国古代地质学史》与其他学科相比有三难:一、无专门著述;二、无专门学者;三、异名纷沓,既有异名同物,又有同名异物.故多年来这方面的著作仅有章鸿钊先生《石雅》(1921)和《中国地质发展小史》(1940).前者顾名思义为矿物、岩石的名 The book “Chinese Science and Civilization” by Joseph Needham of England consists of seven volumes of about eight million words and began to be published in 1954. The third volume was published in 1959, including the geology section. The Chinese version was prepared by the Chinese Academy of Sciences By Wang Kuike translated in 1963, the title translated as “History of Science and Technology in China”, published in October 1976 Science Press. “Compilation of” History of Ancient Geology in China “compared with other disciplines have three difficulties: First, no special writings Second, there is no specialists; Third, different names, there are both synonyms, but also the same name foreign objects. For many years, this book has only Mr. Zhang Hongzhao ”Shiya“ (1921) and ”History of China’s small geology (1940) The former, as the name suggests, is the name of minerals and rocks