An example of personification in historic science writing,
"In my first lectures I shewed how a necessary account of ye true length of a yeare occasioned all the enquirys in Astronomy, first the Suns motion & its inequalities, next the lunar Periods. & her Anomalies then her distances…
I find it now more convenient when I goe to light my pipe of tobacco at ye Sun with a plano convex glasse, to turn the convex side towards him then the plaine, for then all the parallel raies meeting the Axis in a lesse length must needs burne faster than when the plaine side is towards him & I assure you in my opinion, as oft I trie it, the experiment confirmes what I had learnt by speculation & Theory…"
John Flamsteed letter of 1861, quoted in Eric G. Forbes (1975) Introduction, in The Gresham Lectures of John Flamsteed, London: Mansell Information Publishing Ltd.
By tradition, the moon is female and the sun male.
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