Tags: Earth
Categories: Personification
An example of personification in science writing"
"Crystals for instance, all six-cornered, whereas octahedral diamonds are exceedingly rare. But the formative faculty of Earth does not take to her heart only one shape; she knowns and is practised in the whole of geometry."
Johannes Kepler
Kepler, J. (1966). A New Year's Gift. Or, on the six-cornered snowflake (C. Hardie, Trans.). Oxford University Press. (Original Latin edition, 1611)
