The Debate Whether Ancient China Has Science and its Actual Meaning ——Comment on The Beginnings of Western Science;

Rationalism is both a main tradition and a main distinguishing feature of western culture and it exerts direct and decisive influence on western science.

That western science can come into being and develop continuously in the soil of western culture is closely related to the western culture genes .

The chapter I is the academic profile and biography of McNeill and the three most important books of McNeill, The Rise of the West, Plagues and Peoples, and The Pursuit of Power.

Relationship between science and religion in the view of western scientists;