Categories: Personification
An example of personification of Mars in historical science writing,
"…I shall let yu know what has been found by late observations designed for finding the parallax of Mars which by consequence will give the Suns & his distance."
John Flamsteed (1975) Lecture 2, 4 May 1681, in The Gresham Lectures of John Flamsteed (Editor: Eric G. Forbes), London: Mansell Information Publishing Ltd.
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