books.google.co.uk - 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...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/On_the_Shoulders_of_Giants.html?id=svkcAYr8JhEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOn the Shoulders of Giants
