A wrong statement about Leibniz and his interpretation of Chinese I Ching figure (Q2713850)

The title is far more ambitious than the project turns out to be when reading this article. In fact, the author pretends to prove that Leibniz had invented binary arithmetic before he studied Chinese I Ching (Book of Changes) hexagrams, a well-known historical detail, at least in Western literature. The secondary sources which Sun is revising to do so are not even up-to-date and he omits to mention the first essay that Leibniz wrote in his early youth on binary arithmetic (`On the art of combinations', published in 1666, and later reprinted without Leibniz's permission). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe author also discusses Leibniz's anachronistic statement that the ancient sage Fu Hsi had already established binary arithmetic with his arrangement of the hexagrams, and concludes that ``up to now, we can not verify Leibniz's conjecture''.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINESun's metaphoric conclusion on the significance of Leibniz's I Ching study for cultural interflows between China and the West is cited from a Japanese scholar: Leibniz ``binary arithmetic and I Ching's figure symbolize the two hands of the two civilizations, which are holding together harmoniously''. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe article was obviously not proof read by the author or the editor, since half of the notes and references are simply missing.