"Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantum humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea."
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:Compare: Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676), "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants."
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Bernard of Chartres
Bernard of Chartres (Latin: Bernardus Carnotensis; died after 1124) was a twelfth-century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, scholar, and administrator. Gilbert de la Porrée and William of Conches were students of his, and their writings reference his work, as do the writings of John of Salisbury.
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