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Techy News Blog » Standing on the Shoulders of Giants — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:54:31 GMT

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re: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Greg Low — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:45:42 GMT

Hi Andrew,

A book I was reading recently claimed that the reason Newton said that was to cover the fact that the work he'd described at the time was somewhat "leveraged". Nonetheless, it was a really memorable statement and describes so much about the whole scientific process.

Regards,

Greg

re: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Thomas Baxter — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:36:42 GMT

Andrew,

I saw your keynote on this topic at the Open Spatial User Forum recently, both my colleague and I commented about how well (especially in terms that us GISers can understand!) you explained the concept of platform evolution.

re: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

acoat — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:37:08 GMT

Hi Greg,

I think that you & I might be reading the same books :).

The phrase does sum up the scientific process rather well, but it also sums up more generally the value of building on the work of others.

re: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

acoat — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:16:26 GMT

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your kind words - I really enjoyed doing the keynote at the Open Spatial User Forum. As I think I said at the time, I felt a bit like I was coming home.

I've always felt that GIS is in many ways the cannonical platform on which great services can be provided, so it was a particularly appropriate forum for telling this story.

re: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Grant Holliday — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:57:51 GMT

Great analogy Andrew.

The Broad St pump article was very interesting too.

Grant

re: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

acoat — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:50:15 GMT

Thanks Grant,

I love the Broad Street Pump story. It's a great example of cross-discipline thinking, something that we should all be concentrating on.

re: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

acoat — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:30:35 GMT

Hi Greg,

I think that you & I might be reading the same books :).

The phrase does sum up the scientific process rather well, but it also sums up more generally the value of building on the work of others.

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