Tags: crystal structures, minerals
Categories: Comparisons
An historical example of analogy used in writing about science:
"…Bergmann discovered the general fact, that [minerals] could be cloven or split in such directions as to lay bare their peculiar primitive or fundamental forms, (which lay concealed within them, as the statue might be conceived encrusted in its marble envelope,)…"
Sir John F. W. Herschel
Herschel, J. F. W. (1830). Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy.
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