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On the Shoulders of Giants
With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress. "This book is the delightful apotheosis of donmanship: Merton parodies scholarliness while being faultlessly scholarly; he scourges pedantry while brandishing his own abstruse learning on every page. The most recondite and obscure scholarly squabbles are transmuted into the material of comedy as the ostensible subject is shouldered to one side by yet another hobby horse from Merton's densely populated stable. He has created a jeu d'esprit which is profoundly suggestive both in detail and as a whole."—Sean French, Times Literary Supplement
The American Addlemans
Descendants of various Adelman (Edelman) immigrant families to Pennsylvania. These families later settled in Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and elsewhere.
Tree Top Baby
James Moorhead Sr. (ca.1740-1816) emigrated, probably from Scotland, to Philadelphia, and married Lydia Jones in 1761; he served in the army during the Revolutionary War. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Florida, California and elsewhere.
Baldwin By-lines
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Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986
The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
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