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SERENDIP SERENDIPITY
~ SERENDIP id+ | CHANCE | see> FORTUNE
~ SERENDIPITY FORTUITOUS or ACCIDENTAL sug> LOTTERY
for main points see> CHANCE see> FORTUNE
also consider sug> LUCK sug> LOT
implies compination of " ACCIDENT plus SAGACITY "
as if one has to RECOGNIZE GOOD FORTUNE
lit+ TERM POPULARIZED by Horace WALPOLE [#]
in 1754 he wrote " THE THREE PRINCES OF SERENDIP "
hx> SERENDIB was the Arab name for CEYLON or SRI LANKA or
SIMHALADVIPA in Sanskrit for
"ISLAND DWELLING PLACE OF LIONS"
lat SERERE = TO JOIN or BIND
sp SER TO BE or BEING sug> SERENE SERENITY
related to FATE from lat FATUS = AS SPOKEN or DECREED
sug> FACT FATAL FATALITY
hx> A HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF ACCIDENTAL
DISCOVERIES IS WELL RECOGNIZED
id+ " IN THE FIELDS OF OBSERVATION
CHANCE FAVORS ONLY THE PREPARED MIND "
sc> SERENDIPITOUS DISCOVERIES OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
INCLUDE THE RABIES VACCINE BY PASTEUR
ANESTHETIC GAS NITROUS OXIDE CESIUM RUBIDIUM BENZENE
DYNAMITE ELECTROMAGNETISM etc note a work
lit+ "SERENDIPIDITY ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE " by
Royston M ROBERTS [#] John Wiley & Sons New York 1989
cont> in addenda under development see> ~& SERENDIPITY
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