An (historical) examplec of metaphor in science writing:
"…with regard to the inferior species of animals, particularly those which inhabit the ocean and its shores. We find in natural history monuments which prove that those animals had long existed; and we thus procure a measure for the computation of a period of time extremely remote, though far from being precisely ascertained…
IT is thus that, in finding the relics of sea-animals of every kind in the solid body of our earth, a natural history of those animals is formed, which includes a certain portion of time; and for ascertaining this portion of time, we must again have recourse to the regular operations of the world."
James Hutton (1788) Theory of the Earth
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