Tags: Humphrey Davy, nature
Categories: Personification
An example of personification in writing about science:
"We have thus rapidly sketched the course of these brilliant and successful experiments, because they form a most interesting and instructive exemplification of the manner in which knowledge is pursued, and the secrets of nature exhorted from her by well-directed interrogation."
George L. Craik (1830) Sir Humphrey Davy, in Cochrane, R. (Ed.). (1897). Heroes of Invention and Discovery. Lives of eminent inventors and pioneers in science. W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell.
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