Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (Italian Academy Lectures)
Eco, Umberto
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ISBN 13: 9780231111355
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Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (Italian Academy Lectures)

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In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities-unanticipated truths-often spring from mistaken ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Eco tours the labyrinth of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange.
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