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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Merton, Robert K., On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript, with a foreword by Umberto Eco, an afterword by Denis Donoghue, and a preface and postface by the author, post italianate edition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993, 348 pp.
- Resum
- 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. -- Robert K. Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Foundation Scholar of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a MacArthur Prize Fellow. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has received numerous honors and prizes for his work in both science and the humanities. His many books include the classic Social Theory and Social Structure, The Sociology of Science, Sociological Ambivalence, and Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth-Century England.
- Matèries
- Història de la ciència
Història de la cultura
Paremiologia
Metodologia
- Notes
- Ed. original: Nova York, Free Press, 1965. 2a ed.: 1985.
Trad. esp.: A hombros de gigantes: postdata shandiana, Barcelona, Península, 1990.
- URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=svkcAYr8JhEC
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