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+  From: Arne Klawitter <arne.klawitter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:06:33 +0100
Borges gives a source in his article on the exactitude in science
(Suarez Miranda: Viajes de varones prudentes, book 4, chapter XLV,
Lerida 1658). Do you know whether such a book really existes???
Probably not, but how knos more about it?
Arne


Sebastian Gurciullo wrote:

> if you are asking for a reference to this story in Foucault, i have no idea,
> but if you are asking for a reference to the Borges story itself, i can
> help. it can be found in *A Universal History of Infamy* (Penguin 1984), its
> title is "Of Exactitude in Science", and it occurs on p. 131. It is short ...

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