Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used in science:
"'The mummy itself was 1.6 meters [sic] (5.2 feet) long, and the inner winding sheet (of three) was stained with 'a blackish and gummous substance'. From this, [Nehemiah] Grew deduced that 'the way of embalming amongst the Aegyptians [sic.], was boiling the body (in a long cauldron like a fish-kettle) in some kind of liquid balsam; so long, till the aqueous parts of the flesh being evaporated, the oily and gummous parts of the balsam did by degrees soak into it, and intimately incorporate therewith'. It was much like preserving pears in sugar, he suggested."
Adrian Tinniswood
Tinniswood, A. (2019). The Royal Society & the Invention of Modern Science. Basic Books.
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