Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An historical example of anthropomorphism in a scientist's writing:
"For bees are not rolled together pell-mell, like cells in a fruit [such as pomegranate], but marshall themselves as in line of battle, all with their heads projecting in one direction or its opposite, as they think best, all pushing in mutual support tail to tail."
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)
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