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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.
>
> On 6/9/2012 9:11 PM, Steve Kates wrote:
>>
>>  ... He wrote:
>>
>> "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,
>
>  "if I see further it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants" ...
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Martin C. Tangora
> tangora (at) uic.edu



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