Reply to Doug

[michael at ecst.csuchico.edu]

Newton's letter to Hooke is the most famous use of the metaphor.  Robert
Merton, father of the Merton of the famous hedge fund Merton, wrote an
entire book on this metaphor.

 > 
> 
> On Thu, 11 May 2000 DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote:
> 
> > >Marx said he was a dwarf standing on the shoulder of giants or the
> > equivalent.
> > 
> > Newton said it first, I think "If we have seen further than others, it
> > is because we were standing on the shoulders of giants".
> 
> When Stekel defending himself by saying that dwarves on the shoulders of
> giants see farther than the giants, Freud replied, "Yes, but not so with a
> louse on the head of an astronomer."
> 
> BTW, Robert Burton claims (in Anatomy of Melancholia) that the phrase goes
> back to Didacus Stella, whoever he was.
> 
> Michael
> 
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