Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy from the history of science:
"In the sixteenth century, [network] originally applied to woven goods with a structure formed by intersecting lines. By the next century, anatomists began analogising from these craft goods to the structures of the body. Networks were wet before they were mechanical."
Michael Pettit
Michael Pettit 'Social networks in the history of psychology' (in O'Doherty, K. C., Osbeck, L. M., Schraube, E., & Yen, J. (Eds.). (2019). Psychological Studies of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan.)
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