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Explication de l'arithmétique binaire qui se sert des seuls caractères et avec des remarques sur son utilité et sur ce qu'elle donne le sens des a ? Your Account ?? Cart items F E PRINT DESCRIPTION LEIBNIZ Gottfried Wilhelm Explication de l'arithmétique binaire qui se sert des seuls caractères et avec des remarques sur son utilité et sur ce qu'elle donne le sens des anciennes ?gures chinoises de Fohy Paris Jean Boudot First edition First appearance of his famous paper on binary arithmetic Norman From Cave Paintings to the Internet ??A dated manuscript by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz preserved in the Niedersachsische Landesbibliothek Hannover ? includes a brief discussion of the possibility of designing a mechanical binary calculator which would use moving balls to represent binary digits ? Though Leibniz thought of the application of binary arithmetic to computing in the machine he outlined was never built and he published nothing on the subject until his Explication de l'arithmétique binaire qui se sert des seuls caracteres avec des remarques sur son utilité sur ce qu'elle donne le sens des anciens ?gues Chinoises de Fohy published in Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences année MDCCIII B Avec les mémoires de mathématiques which appeared in print in ? The publication of the Explication was prompted by Leibniz ? s correspondence with Joachim Bouvet a member of the Jesuit Mission in China Leibniz had developed an interest in China and in April he edited a collection of letters and essays by members of the Mission entitled Novissima Sinica A copy of this came into the hands of Bouvet who wrote to Leibniz on October expressing his commendation of the work Thus began an extended correspondence between the two men which proved to be very important for the dissemination of Leibniz ? s ideas about binary arithmetic The crucial exchange began on February when Leibniz wrote to Bouvet describing for his correspondent the principles of his binary arithmetic including the analogy of the formation of all the numbers from and with the creation of the world by God out of nothing Bouvet immediately recognized the relationship between the hexagrams of the I- Ching or Book of Changes and the binary numbers and he communicated his discovery in a letter written in Peking on November This reached Leibniz after a detour through England on April With this letter Bouvet enclosed a woodcut of the arrangement of the hexagrams attributed to Fu-Hsi the mythical founder of Chinese culture which holds the key to the identi ?cation Within a week of receiving Bouvet ? s letter Leibniz had sent to Abbé Bignon for publication in the Mémoires of the Paris Academy his Explication de l'Arithmétique binaire sue ce qu'elle donne le sens des anciens ?gures Chinoises de Fohy Ten days later he sent a brief account to Hans Sloane the Secretary of the Royal Society Leibniz viewed binary arithmetic less as a computational tool than as a means of discovering mathematical philosophical and even theological truths He remarked

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