Categories: Comparisons
An historical example of a metaphor used by a scientist:
"The picture was, then, as follows: space is filled by the ether, in which the material corpuscles or atoms of ponderable matter swim around…"
Albert Einstein
Einstein, A. (1994). The problem of space, ether, and the field in physics. In Ideas and Opinions. The Modern Library. (1934)
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