![]() Eco's book shows how: - believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America - the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward - the myth of the Rosicrucians affected the Masons, leading in turn to the widespread. In Eco's words, 'even errors can produce interesting side effects'. ![]() 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. ![]() The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Download this stock image: Serendipities: Language & Lunacy Book by Umberto Eco 1998 - 2MADW0E from Alamys library of millions of high resolution stock. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 35 (656pp) ISBN 978-0-15-132765-2 If a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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