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Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously "discovering" America. In a careful unveiling 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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Serendipities
February 3, 2000, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Pub Co
Paperback
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0753808781 9780753808788
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Serendipities: language & lunacy
1999, Harcourt Brace
in English
- 1st Harvest ed.
0156007517 9780156007511
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SERENDIPITIES
1999, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Hardcover
0297643258 9780297643258
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Serendipities: language & lunacy
1998, Columbia University Press
in English
0231111347 9780231111348
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