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Image: Diagram of I Ching hexagrams owned by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1701

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Description: A diagram of I Ching hexagrams owned by German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It was sent to Leibniz from the French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet. The Arabic numerals written on the diagram were added by Leibniz.
Title: Diagram of hexagrams sent by Bouvet to Leibniz
Credit: Perkins, Franklin. Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 117. Print.
Author: Unknown
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