Just one of those things I find fascinating. "In a draft of the book written between January and June 1707, he included a short passage about binary arithmetic, creation from nothing, and ancient Chinese figures associated with the Yijing (a.k.a. the I Ching). He then crossed this passage out, before a fair copy of the Theodicy manuscript was made." Taoist writings have influenced my own view of the world, and I wonder what would have followed had the binary form been popularized much earlier in our intellectual history.
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