# standing on the shoulders of giants

> stylistic device to acknowledge previous discoveries

**Wikidata**: [Q244081](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244081)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants


## References

1. Metalogicon. 1159
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013