Which writer coined the phrase 'Serendipity' to denote the faculty of making lucky and unexpected finds by accident?
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Serendipity which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory. Merton also co-authored (with Elinor Barber) "The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity", which traces the origins and uses of the word "serendipity" since it was coined. The book is "a study in sociological semantics and the sociology of science", as the subtitle of the book declares. It further develops the idea of serendipity as scientific "method" (as juxtaposed with purposeful discovery by experiment or retrospective prophecy). William Boyd coined the term zemblanity in the late twentieth century to mean somewhat the opposite of serendipity: "making