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I think it's from the Middle Ages, uttered by one of the participants in the 12th-13th c renaissance with respect to the foundation Greek philosophy provided (via Arabic translation) for the revival of learning. Steve marglin
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Not Newton; much earlier.
see Merton, Robert King. 1965. On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript (NY: Free Press).
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Martin C. Tangora <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That would be Newton, not Einstein.
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> On 6/9/2012 9:11 PM, Steve Kates wrote:
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>> ... He wrote:
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>> "In the past I have no doubt bored you with the story of how in my
>> last year at Waterloo ... I don't recall if Sidney used the Einstein
>> quote,
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> "if I see further it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants" ...
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> The curse of the Internet is that we can now verify in a few seconds
> that Newton was far from the first to use this metaphor, but his use
> is the most famous.
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> Martin C. Tangora
> tangora (at) uic.edu
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