standing on the shoulders of giants

Summary

standing on the shoulders of giants is a circumlocution^[1]. It draws 646 Wikipedia views per month (circumlocution category, ranking #1 of 1).^[2]

Key Facts

• standing on the shoulders of giants authored Bernard of Chartres^[3].
• standing on the shoulders of giants's instance of is recorded as circumlocution^[4].
• standing on the shoulders of giants's subclass of is recorded as acknowledgment^[5].
• standing on the shoulders of giants's subclass of is recorded as citation^[6].
• standing on the shoulders of giants's Commons category is recorded as Standing on the shoulders of giants^[7].
• standing on the shoulders of giants's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07y1hq^[8].
• standing on the shoulders of giants's Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID is recorded as nani-sulle-spalle-di-giganti^[9].

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Works and Contributions

standing on the shoulders of giants authored Bernard of Chartres^[3]. Things named for it include On the Shoulders of Giants^[10], a written work^[11], written by Stephen Hawking^[12].

Why It Matters

standing on the shoulders of giants draws 646 Wikipedia views per month (circumlocution category, ranking #1 of 1).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[13] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[14]

Entities named for it include On the Shoulders of Giants^[10], a written work^[11], written by Stephen Hawking^[12].