Categories: Comparisons
An historical example of extended metaphor in a scientist's writing.
"These stripes reminded me of what happens in Turkish baths, when the winter's frost lays siege to broken windows. Cold air and steam do battle at such frontier passes."
Johannes Kepler
Kepler, J. (1966). A New Year's Gift. Or, on the six-cornered snowflake (C. Hardie, Trans.). Oxford University Press. (Original Latin edition, 1611)
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