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Re: SHOE Reminder
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michael perelman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:31:28 -0700
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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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