An example of metapor in writing about science:
"No stellar parallax is visible to the naked eye in Copernicus' geokinetic astronomy because the starry sphere is no longer adjacent to Saturn's, but is enormously remote. Gone forever was Ptolemy's cosmic jewel box, with its shining stars some 20,000 earth-radii away from us."
Edward Rosen
Rosen, E. (1995). Copernicus and his successors (E. Hilfstein, Ed.). The Hambledon Press.
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Many examples of science metaphors are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.