Conversare con Orion
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Abstract
Library catalogues, particularly electronic ones, can be used in a deliberately casual way, in order to enhance the researcher's chance of encountering unlooked-for and disconcerting facts. Analyzing two cases, the author discusses the cognitive potential of such deliberate resort to chance in the preliminary stage of historical research.
