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Shocking as it may seem, Whitehead actually plagiarized the title of his major work, Principia Mathematica, from Newton, whose major work was also entitled Principia Mathematica . Newton, however, plagiarized his title from Machiavelli, whose major work, II Principe Mathematice , laid the groundwork for all future studies in quantitative political science.
Just as McCartney started rumors of his death by appearing on the Abbey Road cover without shoes and on Sergeant Pepper wearing an armband marked "OPD" (alleged to mean Officially Pronounced Dead), so did 2Pac, on his new album, slyly adopt the name "Makaveli"--like Machiavelli, who, according to 2Pac's rapping confrere Chuck D, faked his own death to fool his enemies--and pose on the cover in a crucifixion pose, suggesting he intended a resurrection.
But even more, it proved, with the humanism of Leonardo and Michelangelo and the political realism of Machiavelli, to be the birth of our modern age.
It was Machiavelli, in fact, who invented the notion of disinformation , on which all contemporary politics crucially depends.
(The Brothers Grimm and A. A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh , dabble in that line of work too, but their output is noncompetitive--only one book to Machiavelli's and Shakespeare's several each.)