Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile used in public science discourse:
"As to ether and chloroform, they seem like invisible intelligences, doomed to obey [Sir James Simpson's] bidding – familiars who do his work because they must never venture to produce effects one iota greater or less than he desires."
Letter to an Indian newspaper quoted in Cochrane, R. (Ed.). (1897). Heroes of Invention and Discovery. Lives of eminent inventors and pioneers in science. W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell.
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