Serendipities : language & lunacy
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Serendipities : language & lunacy
（A Harvest/HBJ book）
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999
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A brilliant illumination of intellectual history
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Includes index
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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
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