An (historical) example of anthropomorphic language in science writing"
"For as in our air the smoke of any ignited body seeks to ascend and does so either perpendicularly (if the body is at rest) or obliquely (if the body is moving sideways), so in the heavens, where bodies gravitate towards the sun, smoke and vapours must ascend with respect to the sun…"
Isaac Newton (1999) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (3rd edition, 1726): The authoritative translation (I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman), University of California Press
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