An example of personification in historical science writing,
"For the suns greater light observeing that of ye planets and stars it was not possible for them [early astronomers] to observe whether his motions above the Earth were lesse then [sic, than] these arches hed ran over under it, as they were in ye Moone, or not; they could therefore onely guesse at this, & that hee was more remote than ye moone, because she sometimes covered and eclipsed him at the time of ye New Moones…
…when Aristarchus ye Samian, considering the increase of the Moones light according to her removes from ye sun after her first immersion from him, to ye full, & then its decrease and waine till shee was covered under his raies, concluded his distance must be much farther…"
John Flamsteed (1975) Lecture 1, Wednesday, 27 April 1681, in The Gresham Lectures of John Flamsteed (Editor: Eric G. Forbes), London: Mansell Information Publishing Ltd.
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