On the shoulders of giants : a Shandean postscript

Author(s)

• Merton, Robert King
• Eco, Umberto
• Donoghue, Denis

Bibliographic Information

On the shoulders of giants : a Shandean postscript

Robert K. Merton ; with a foreword by Umberto Eco ; an afterword by Denis Donoghue ; and a preface and postface by the author

University of Chicago Press, 1993

The post-Italianate ed., University of Chicago Press ed

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1965

"Page 1-290 of this edition are reprinted by arrangement with The Free Press, a division of Macmillan, Inc., originally published in 1965" -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Details

• NCID: BA20640610
• ISBN:
  • 9780226520865
• LCCN: 92043871
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 319 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC16.N7
  • DC20 : 816/.54
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 -- Quotations
  • LCSH : Science -- Methodology -- History
  • LCSH : Aphorisms and apothegms -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Learning and scholarship -- Anecdotes