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In the section of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1882) entitled "On the Vision and the Riddle", Zarathustra climbs to great heights with a dwarf on his shoulders to show him his greatest thought. Once there however, the dwarf fails to understand the profundity of the vision and Zarathustra reproaches him for "making things too easy on [him]self."
This implies that he conceived of the size disparity between the giants and dwarfs as much less extreme than modern people might imagine it to be; if the eyes of a dwarf are situated higher than those of a giant on whose shoulders the dwarf is seated, this means that the dwarf's upper body is (at least) about as large as the giant's head.
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Standing on the shoulders of giants may also refer to: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album), ...
On the Shoulders of Giants may refer to: Standing on the shoulders of giants, a Western metaphor; On the Shoulders of Giants, a 2002 compilation of scientific texts edited by Stephen Hawking; On the Shoulders of Giants, a 2011 historical sports documentary film; On the Shoulders of Giants, a 2020 album by Chris Byars
On Giants' Shoulders was written in 1998 by Melvyn Bragg. The book was assembled after a series of interviews Bragg had with current scientists about the world's greatest scientists such as Archimedes, Isaac Newton and Einstein. Bragg, who brands himself as a "non-scientist", conducted these interviews on BBC Radio 4 for other non-scientists ...
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The Prose and Poetic Eddas, which form the foundation of what we know today concerning Norse mythology, contain many names of dwarfs.While many of them are featured in extant myths of their own, many others have come down to us today only as names in various lists provided for the benefit of skalds or poets of the medieval period and are included here for the purpose of completeness.