eye lens is a kind of secretary

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An example of simile used in science writing:

"Thanks to the new dissectors prepared to press sharp steel into slimy viscera, it became understood that the lens of the human eye is not in fact the organ of sight, only its enabler, a kind of secretary, sorting incoming information into order for executive processing by the brain."

Hugh Aldersley-Williams (2020) Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the making of science in Europe. Picador.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.