The first chapter, the origin of science and technology culture, the relatively independent development and career development of science and technology, the premise of science, primitive thinking and language, primitive religion and witchcraft, astronomy and medicine are all related to witchcraft; Totem worship and legend, writing and cultural norms, the germination of China's primitive science and technology, Chapter II, ancient science and technology culture, natural philosophers, Thales, Pythagoras, metaphysics, number is the beginning of everything, ancient atomism, Aristotle in the golden age, formal logic, Hippocratic clinic and materialism, Roman times, around the war, China's five elements of heaven and nature, Yi mathematics, astronomy, medical system, learning and learning. The third chapter, medieval science and technology culture, medieval pause, Christian rule in Europe, theological view of nature, developed Arab culture, enlightened and integrated cultural history, mathematics, alchemy and astronomy, is different from the motivation of the west to look for "reason" behind nature, and China attaches importance to practicality; Different from the interaction of western scientific theory, experiment and technology, China is separated; Different from the western emphasis on scientific methods, China is good at synthesis, poor in analytical ability, and attaches great importance to the road and despises the instrument; The role of Arab culture as a bridge between ancient Greece and modern science and technology and between East and West.