Why Luo Clement published "The Ancient Science of Numbers".... maybe

In my ignorance I expressed the question "why did Luo Clement publish 'The Ancient Science of Numbers' in 1908 when L. Dow Balliet had published numerous books on Pythagorean vibration reading and in 1908 published a very similar book, 'The Philosophy of Numbers?'"

Answer found.

Mrs. Balliet taught the birth number is the sum of all digits including month, date and year, reduced to a single digit.  And she taught the name number is the sum of the Pythagorean table's number assignment for each letter of the first and last name summed and reduced to a single digit.  You can find that on pages 18 and 19 of her 1908 book which is linked above.

The very important nuance is how Luo Clement, who I believe to be WD Gann, determines the very important birth and name number.  Beginning on page 111 of Luo's book, also linked above, he demonstrates numerous 'readings' of historical persons.  Clearly in his method, 1) the name number is the sum of the digits of the first name only reduced to one digit, 2) the birth number is the sum of the digits of the day of the month reduced to one digit, and 3) the reading first looks to the birth number before evaluating the name number, the former implicitly, the more important.

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The nuance is important in my opinion because I believe Luo Clement's book was the expression of Mr. Gann's great 1908 secret.  By 1908 and in my opinion, Mr. Gann had discovered the mathematics of the "curve of the future" and conquered the very simple case of the stock market (simple said somewhat facetiously).  It was in 1908 he discovered how to apply a person's or entity's vibration number to that curve, much as we apply a multiple to an independent variable to predict the dependent variable, to derive the particular future of a person or entity.

Mr. Gann could not leave a complete record of his life's work, albeit encoded, having let Mrs. Balliet's formulation stand.  Not that he considered her works invalid because, as shown in "An Interview with Luo Clement," Mr. Gann encoded his respect for her work in "The Tunnel Thru the Air" (see the encoded message found by Steven Hahn that has her name, missing an 'i,' encoded in the yellow, red and blue highlighted letters, and "wise person" highlighted in purple and green highlighted letters).  

So, I hope those are better versed in the Mrs. Balliet's and Mr. Clement's (err, WD Gann's) methods are cheering for me today as I figure this out.  Keep in mind, you're not dealing with the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Jim Ross