An example of metaphor in scientific writing:
"…we saw the star [Hyades] brought into contact with the shadowy part of the lunar body and already lying hidden between the horns of the moon at the end of the fifth hour of the night, though the star was nearer the southern horn by three quarters as it were of the width or diameter of the moon."
Nicolaus Copernicus (1543/1995) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Translator: Charles Glenn Wallis) Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books
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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.
