Categories: Personification
An example of personification in historical science writing
"whence it is evidence that they all receive their light from the sun which is further also proved in ♃ [Jupiter] by the shadows of his satellites passing over his body & making small Eclipses on it when they are carried in their orbits betwixt him & the sun. as also in ♄ [Saturn] by the shadow of his body on his ring or of it on his body"
John Flamsteed (1975) Lecture 23, 31 January 1682/3 in The Gresham Lectures of John Flamsteed (Editor: Eric G. Forbes), London: Mansell Information Publishing Ltd.
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