The metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) expresses the meaning of "discovering truth by building on previous discoveries".[1] This concept has been traced to the 12th century, attributed to Bernard of Chartres.
Its most familiar expression in English is by Isaac Newton in 1676:
"If I have seen further,
it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."[2]
Below, the blind giant Orion carries his servant Cedalion on his shoulders to serve as the giant's eye.
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Playing At Giants :
a beautiful old favourite by Master Goya
Francisco Goya, Jugando en el Giants/Playing at Giants (c.1792)
Playing At Giants :
a beautiful old favourite by Master Goya
Francisco Goya, Jugando en el Giants/Playing at Giants (c.1792)
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A Yankee at the Court of TAR
after FIAPCE
after Luis Jacob
after Davies & Co. (Melb.)
] after whom, Houdini (
after The American Frikell
after Washington Simmons
after Dr H. S. Lynn
after Wiljalba Frikell
after Mark Twain
Theatre of the Actors of Regard featuring Luis Jacob's 'Sphinx'
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