An example of personification in science writing,
"Now in Pato's Timaeus each of these five stars is named in accordance with its visible aspects: Saturn, Phaenon – as if to say 'shining' or 'appearing', for Saturn is hidden less than the others, and emerges more quickly after undergoing occultation by the sun; Jupiter, Phaeton from his radiance; Mars, Pyrois from his fiery glow; Venus sometimes …Lucifer [or] Vesperugo , according as she shines at morning or evening; and finally Mercury, Stilbon from his sparkling and twinkling light."
Nicolaus Copernicus (1543/1995) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Translator: Charles Glenn Wallis) Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books
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