Translation of that -originally french- text:
Surprisingly this arithmetic with 1 and 0 gives us the key to the secret of the linear signs of an old king and philosopher named Fo-Hi, who might have lived four thousand years ago and who is believed by the Chinese to be the founder of their empire and their sciences. There are some linear signs attributed to him, all concerned to this way of arithmetics. You only have to take the so-called eight-cova-sign which is taken as fundamental and add the obvious explanation - as a full line means a unit or 1 - and a broken line means naught or 0.
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0 0 0
1 0 0
0 1 0
1 1 0
0 0 1
1 0 1
0 1 1
1 1 1
0
1
10
11
100
101
110
111
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
It is about a thousand of years that the Chinese do not know the significance of the Cova- or Line-signs of Fo-Hi, they made comments about them getting a sense from utmost far away - the true explanation now had to come by an European.
It came this way: Not two years ago I told my counting method to Père Bouvet, a french Jesuit living in Peking, and he detected at once the key to to the signs of Fo-Hi. He wrote to me on November 14, 1701 sending me the large figure if that prince and philosopher which is leading up to 64 and allows no doubt that this interpretation is the true one. Thus you may say that this father solved the enigma of Fo-Hi by the means of my information. And as these figures are the oldest monument of science existing in the world, their decoding after so long a time is most remarkable..