On the Shoulders of Giants: The Post-Italianate Edition by Umberto Eco, Robert K. Merton, Denis Donoghue

On the Shoulders of Giants: The Post-Italianate Edition

Umberto Eco, Robert K. Merton, Denis Donoghue

348 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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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