Serendipities : Language & Lunacy / Umberto Eco ; Translated by William Weaver

by Eco, Umberto

€7 · Offered by MW Books

1998, Third Edition. New York : Columbia University Press. Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros.....

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