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ISBN
9780156007511

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0156007517
ISBN-13
9780156007511
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242451

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
144 Pages
Publication Name
Serendipities : Language and Lunacy
Language
English
Subject
Communication Studies, Language, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Author
Umberto Eco
Subject Area
Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-015149
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Examines, with wit and elegance, some of the many cases in which a mistaken belief has led to a sound result . . . Delightful."-The Atlantic Monthly "Rich in historical anecdotes . . . Throughout, his treatments are informative, intellectually sophisticated, and thoroughly entertaining."-Library Journal
Dewey Decimal
401
Synopsis
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 for a unicorn, Umberto Eco offers a dazzling tour of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange to make sense of the world. Uncovering layers of mistakes that have shaped humanhistory, Eco offers with wit and clarity such instances as Columbus's voyage to the New World, the fictions that grew around the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar, and the linguistic endeavors to recreate the language of Babel, to show how serendipities can evolve out of mistakes. With erudition, anecdotes, and scholarly rigor, this new collection of essays is sure to entertain and enlighten any reader with a passion for the curious history of languages and ideas., 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 for a u
LC Classification Number
P106.E29 1999

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