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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100156007517

ISBN-139780156007511

eBay Product ID (ePID)242451

Product Key Features

Number of Pages144 Pages

Publication NameSerendipities : Language and Lunacy

LanguageEnglish

SubjectCommunication Studies, Language, Linguistics / General

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

AuthorUmberto Eco

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight6 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-015149

Dewey Edition21

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 Decimal401

SynopsisSerendipities 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 NumberP106.E29 1999