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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton
1676
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1676
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Isaac Newton
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Newton, Isaac. Letter to Hooke, 5 February 1675/6." The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Original citation
Newton, Isaac. Letter to Robert Hooke. 5 Feb. 1676.

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