A French Jesuit in Peking, Joachim Bouvet (d. 1730), came to believe that the “I Ching” was not only China’s oldest text — but humankind’s.
Older, even, than the “Book of Genesis”.
Bouvet’s theory led G. W. Leibniz to perfect his binomial notation of mathematics (0-1) — which led, several centuries on, to digital computing, cybernetics & AI.
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