Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile used in scientific writing:
"But the men who endeavour to pull all the stars together around in the ether in accordance with their own opinion, as though they had put chains upon them, merit pity rather than resentment, in your judgement as in that of other true mathematicians and all good men."
Rheticus (1959) The Narratio Prima (1539, Translated by. E. Rosen), in Three Copernican Treatises (Ed. E. Rosen) Dover Publications (pp.107-196).
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The notion of the stars being embedded in an 'ether' or 'aether' was a long-standing (and shifting) historical conception that would today be seen as an an alternative conception,
