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Merton, Robert K., and Elinor Barber. The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: a Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science.(Book Review)

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From: International Social Science Review
Date: 20040922
Author:Green, Harold M.

Merton, Robert K., and Elinor Barber. The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xxv + 313 pp. Cloth, $29.98.

In The Way of an Investigator (1945, pp. 68-78), physiologist Walter B. Cannon, one of the earliesi to use the word "serendipity" in science, tells us that it was coined in 1754 by Horace Walpole, fourth earl of Oxford. In a letter to his good friend Horace Mann, Walpole recounted this excerpt from a fairy tale, The Travels and Adventures of Three Princes ...

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