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1 - Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2016

By
Geoffrey Lloyd
Edited by
Lawrence W. Sherman  and
David Allan Feller
Lawrence W. Sherman
Affiliation:
Darwin College, Cambridge
David Allan Feller
Affiliation:
Darwin College, Cambridge
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Foresight , pp. 10 - 31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Van Xuyet, Ngo (1976) Divination, magie et politique dans la Chine ancienne. Paris: University of FranceGoogle Scholar
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