My Thoughts on Changes

Book Three

The diagrams of third book are now online. This book is quite special in that is has lots of math formulas and tables. As with the other two books, there are diagrams that are repeated, however, for the sake of integity, I will not suppress any duplicate diagrams from any of the books. I am of the opinion that the more contextual information the better.

As with the second book, this one has page numbers and a good reason for me to include the Index for further reference.

Here goes the second book...

I just finished scanning and uploading the diagrams of the second Gen. Cheng's book. I brought some books to work and used the scanner I have in the office. It is a slower process than using a camera but to use a camera one needs good, indirect light. Something I didn't have around today. In any case, I think the results are more uniform with a scanner anyway.

As you can see, these scans include a cover picture, an Index and lots of tables I found together with the diagrams. Many of the diagrams I have seen already in the first book. The tables, on the other hand, may shed some further light on them and I think they are a very useful addition. The nice thing about the pages of this book is that they do include page numbers and if you read the Index you may be able to make up the chapter they are in. If anybody needs further information from any given chapter, let me know.

I was very happy to learn that Steve Marshall found some of my first diagrams useful and experienced some kind of epiphany while looking at one of the thumbnail pictures. He found a very interesting pattern in the circular Xiantian diagram by Shao Yong.

Well, I'm in the shipping business and one thing I see all the time on the bridge of the ships I board, are compasses. The pattern that Steve found is strikingly similar to a "Rose of the Winds" in a marine compass. I consider this to be a great find and I'm sure many more hidden patterns await in these diagrams.

Starting the scanning of my Chinese Yi books

Today I started scanning my set of chinese Yi books. As you can see from the pictures, they are mostly scans of the diagrams in the books. I am posting this in the hope that some of my fellow Yi students, who can read chinese, are able to study them and share their opinions here or in the Yi forums I frequent.

The link to the pictures is here: Yi Book 1

Please beware that the scans are detailed pictures and therefore are big files. I did this on purpose for those serious enough to download them and study them in detail. They are big for the purpose of zooming in the detail of the Chinese characters that accompany the diagrams.

I have nine more, Yi related, Chinese books. This is the first one I scanned.

There are 73 pictures in the above link. I hope you enjoy them.