✍ Umberto Eco
📂 Fiction
🌐 English
⚖ 482 KB
👁 1 views
✦ LIBER ✦
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (Italian Academy Lectures)
✍ Scribed by Eco, Umberto
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
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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