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On the shoulders of giants; a Shandean postscript. With a foreword by Catherine Drinker Bowen

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  • "On the shoulders of giants"@it
  • "On the shoulders of giants : a Shandean postscript"
  • "Gigantes"
  • "Postdata shandiana"

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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 Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress. "This book is the delightful apotheosis of donmanship: Merton parodies scholarliness while being faultlessly scholarly; he scourges pedantry while brandishing his own abstruse learning on every page. The most recondite and obscure scholarly squabbles are transmuted into the material of comedy as the ostensible subject is shouldered to one side by yet another hobby horse from Merton's densely populated stable. He has created a jeu d'esprit which is profoundly suggestive both in detail and as a whole."--Sean French, Times Literary Supplement."

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Humor"@en
  • "Humor"
  • "Quotations"@en
  • "Quotations"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Anecdotes"@en
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  • "On the shoulders of giants; a Shandean postscript. With a foreword by Catherine Drinker Bowen"@en
  • "Sulle spalle dei giganti poscritto shandiano"
  • "A hombros de gigantes : Postdata Shandiana"@es
  • "On the shoulders of giants : a Shandean postscript"@en
  • "On the shoulders of giants : a Shandean postscript"
  • "A hombros de gigantes : postdata shandiana"
  • "On the shoulders of giants a Shandean postscript"
  • "On the shoulders of giants a Shandean postscript"@en
  • "Auf den Schultern von Riesen : ein Leitfaden durch das Labyrinth der Gelehrsamkeit"
  • "On the Shoulders of giants : a Shandean postscript"
  • "On the shoulders of giants; a Shandean postscript"
  • "On the shoulders of giants"@en
  • "On the shoulders of giants : a Shandean postscrip"
  • "Sulle spalle dei giganti : poscritto shandiano"
  • "Sulle spalle dei giganti : poscritto shandiano"@it
  • "Sulle spalle dei giganti : proscritto shandiano"
  • "On the shoulders of giants; a Shandean postcript [by] Robert K. Merton. With a foreword by Chtherine Drinker Bowen"@en
  • "Auf den Schultern von Reisen : ein Leitfaden durch das Labyrinth der Gelehrsamkeit"
  • "On the Shoulders of Giants"
  • "On the shoulders of giants : a shandean postscript : the post-italianate edition"
  • "A hombros de gigantes : postdata shanciana"@es
  • "On the shoulders of giants : a shandean postscript"
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