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Science Development: Sino-Western Comparative Insights

Abstract: Logical and historical arguments are offered to prove that the following hypothesis is invalid: Given that in medieval China the study of magnetism had reached an advanced level, if it had had the sociohistorical condition to develop modern science, then China might have developed "field physics" (of electromagnetism) first and bypassed the Newtonian "billiard-ball physics. " The fallacy of this hypothesis serves us as the starting point of developing some profound ideas—that is, those related to the evolutionary patterns of exact sciences.