Categories: Personification
An example of personification in historical science writing:
"nature workes the shortest way…the most ordinary of her p[er]formances shew theire proper effects much more easily then [sic] the most ingenious of humane contrivances can represent them. Hence I thinke too we may draw one probable Argument for the Verity of the Pythagorean systeme. for since as Nature workes the readiest way, & this representation of her answers all her appearances the most easily and Naturally tis the most likely to be the very truth it selfe & this its p[er]fect figure."
John Flamsteed, quoted in Eric G. Forbes (1975) Introduction, in The Gresham Lectures of John Flamsteed, London: Mansell Information Publishing Ltd.
