Serendipities
Serendipities is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world''s most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco''s words, ''even errors can produce interesting side effects''. Eco''s book shows how:
-- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America
-- the medieval my...
Serendipities is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world''s most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco''s words, ''even errors can produce interesting side effects''. Eco''s book shows how:
-- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America
-- the medieval my...
