An example of personification (of the moon) in scientific writing:
"…the circular movement of the moon interrupts us now and does so of necessity because through her in particular, who shares in both night and day, the positions of the stars are apprehended and examined; then, because she alone of all the planets refers her revelations however indirectly to the centre of the earth and is most closely akin to the earth. And on that account, in so far as she is considered in herself, she does not indicate anything about the mobility of the earth – except perhaps in the case of daily movement; and for that reason the ancients believed that the Earth was the centre of the world and the centre common to all revolutions."
Nicolaus Copernicus (1543/1995) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Translator: Charles Glenn Wallis) Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books
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This reads as anthropomorphic as the moon referring her revelations appears to make 'her' an active agent crying out deliberate acts.
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