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单词 a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant sees farther than the giant
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a dwarf (also child, etc.) standing on the shoulders of a giant sees farther than the giant
The phrase standing on the shoulders of giants is strongly associated with Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727): see quot. 1676. Earlier in proverbial phrase a dwarf (also child, etc.) standing on the shoulders of a giant sees farther than the giant (now rare; in quot. 1608 as a simile).
[Originally after post-classical Latin nanos gigantium humeris insidentes dwarves sitting on the shoulders of giants (12th cent.; attributed by John of Salisbury to Bernard of Chartres).]
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