The I Ching (Yi Jing / Book of Changes)
tr. James Legge (Sacred Books of the East, vol. XVI) · 1882 · English (from Chinese)
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The I Ching — the Book of Changes: the 64 hexagrams, the Ten Wings, and the commentary. Legge’s complete 1882 translation (Sacred Books of the East, vol. XVI) is hosted here.
Relevance to this project
Independent Chinese astronomy: the Metonic 19-year cycle and the 28-lunar-mansion scheme converge on the same constants with no borrowing — the east-Asian witness to 19 and 28.
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