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For questions about the scientific discipline that concerns itself with analysing the laws of nature in full generality

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Whose shoulders did Newton stand on?

In a letter to Robert Hooke in 1676, Newton wrote: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Do we know which giants Newton was referring to? And was he referring to a …
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