Serendipity

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~ 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