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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.
I‘m not even kidding - I was pricing this book just as my audiobook {The Geography of Genius} started explaining how Horace Walpole came to coin the term ‘serendipity‘. —————— HOW SERENDIPITOUS IS THAT?? #serendipity
Serendipities: Language & Lunacy | 
