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348 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226520865
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 May 1993
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With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's Tristram Shandy,...
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348 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226520865
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 May 1993
Description
With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's Tristram Shandy,...
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