Categories: Personification
An example of personification in science writing:
"Now among the regular solids, the first, the firstborn and the father of all the rest, is the cube, and his wife, so to speak, is the octahedron, which has as many corners as the cube has sides and centres of these sides; and the corners of the octahedron correspond, one to one, to these centres."
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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