On the shoulders of giants
Subtitle: a Shandean postscript
By: Robert K. Merton ; with a foreword by Umberto Eco, an afterword by Denis Donoghue, and a preface and postface by the author.
Edition: Post-Italianate ed., University of Chicago Press ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 -- Quotations.; Science -- Methodology -- History.; Aphorisms and apothegms -- History and criticism.; Learning and scholarship -- Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1965.