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290 pages • first pub 1965 (view editions)
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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 Shand...
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290 pages • first pub 1965 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
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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 Shand...
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