试论《农政全书》中果蔬贮藏资料的历史地位

《农政全书》是明末杰出科学家徐光启的代表作。书中系统摘编和著述的贮藏资料全面地反映了我国古代果蔬贮藏科学。特别是在我国果蔬贮藏学中早已采用近代科学的方法。徐光启是我国近代果蔬贮藏科学的先躯,《农政全书》则是我国近代果蔬贮藏的开端。书中反映的贮藏学思想和方法至今犹有重要的借鉴价值。

Trial Discussion on the Historical Position of the Fruitvegetable Storage Materials in 'Farming Encyclopaedia'

'FARMING ENCYCLOPAEDIA' is the representative works of Mr Xu Guangqi, one of the outstanding scientists in the late Ming Dynasty. The storage materials excerpted and compled systematically in the book reflected more practically the excellent traditions of our ancient science in fruit-vegetable storage in an all-round way. Especially it was in this book that showed China was the early to use the modern sciences and techniques in the field of our fruit-vegetable storage. Mr Xu was the pioneer in the field of fruit-vegetable storage of moderntimes in our country. 'FARMING ENCYCLOPAEDIA' indicated the begiuning of the modern science in fruit-vegetable storage of our country, The idea and techniques about storage reflected from this book still hold important values for reference nowadays.