Science, magic, and religion

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This passage from Umberto Eco's celebrated novel Foucault's Pendulum captures succinctly the central theme of this book: how are places such as the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris, one of the key settings of Eco's novel, transformed into ritual sites?

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