Re: 4701

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 22:23:30 EST

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Thomas Chan scripsit:

> And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the
> guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay".

So that line of Tennyson's only meant that Europe did things 6/5 as
fast as China? I interpreted "cycle" in that context to mean a
century (cf. French), giving a 2:1 ratio.

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