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Published by Harcourt, 1985
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Good condition. Good dust jacket. Vicennial edition. Owner's name on inside. Dust jacket price clipped. From the collection of American book critic Michael Dirda. Dirda worked as a columnist for The Washington Post from 1978 to 2026 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his criticism. He has authored two collections of literary criticism and several works on books and reading.
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- Title
- On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript
- Author
- Merton, Robert K.
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0151699623
- ISBN 13
- 9780151699629
A parody of scholarly essays traces the origins of Newton's famous quotation and examines the history of ideas
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About the Author
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.
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