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On the Shoulders of Giants: The ... by Merton, Robert K. K. Paperback / softback
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- 0226520862
- EAN
- 9780226520865
- Release Title
- On the Shoulders of Giants: The Post-Italianate Edition
- Artist
- Merton, Robert K. K.
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- Book Title
- On the Shoulders of Giants: The Post-Italianate Edition
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Education, Science, Référence, Literary Collections, Social Science
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- Quotations, Letters, General, Research & Methodology, Science & Technology
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- 0.6in
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- 16.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 348 Pages
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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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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226520862
ISBN-13
9780226520865
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96021
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Trade Paperback
Language
English
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Reprint
Topic
Quotations, Letters, General, Research & Methodology, Science & Technology
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Education, Science, Référence, Literary Collections, Social Science
Number of Pages
348 Pages
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Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
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Edition Description
Reprint
Publication Name
On the Shoulders of Giants : the Post-Italianate Edition
Table of Content
Foreword by Umberto Eco (1990) translated by William Weaver Preface to the Vicennial Edition (1985) On the Shoulders of Giants Afterword by Denis Donoghue (1985) Postface (1993)
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
92-043871
Dewey Decimal
816.54
Dewey Edition
20
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Yes
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