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by Robert K. Merton

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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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A great and universal book....one of my all-time favorites.....The fascinating details build out to profound statements, with light touches about the deepest issues that concern us all: creativity, originality, the social context of discovery, to name just a few.'-Stephen Jay Gould

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  • Title On the Shoulders of Giants: The Post-Italianate Edition
  • Author Robert K. Merton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 1993-05-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226520865 / 0226520862
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.59 x 5.93 x 0.79 in (21.82 x 15.06 x 2.01 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Aphorisms and apothegms - History and, Newton, Isaac - Quotations
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92043871
  • Dewey Decimal Code 816.54

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Robert K. Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Foundation Scholar of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a MacArthur Prize Fellow. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has received numerous honors and prizes for his work in both science and the humanities. His many books include the classic Social Theory and Social Structure, the Sociology of Science, Sociological Ambivalence, and Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth-Century England.
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