Like The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum provides a formidable display of Eco's erudition couched in the terms of a mystery thriller. Perhaps less thrilling than its predecessor, Fou-cault's Pendulum also offers whole chapters of fairly straightforward history on subjects as diverse as the Jesuits, calendar reform, numerology, and cartography. Medieval history is perhaps.....
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