Standing on the shoulders of giants (redux)

Posted by on Aug 18, 2015 in COPYCOPYCOPY, Copying, Science | No Comments

If you have read CopyCopyCopy, you’ll remember it opens with the story of the greatest and grumpiest physicist of any era, Sir Isaac Newton. He famously admitted – under pressure from a number of people including his friend, Robert Hooke, that his work was rooted in, based on and dependent on the work of others: “if […]