An historical example of metaphor and simile in scientific thinking:
"Fludd believed …Magnetic attraction was a 'coition or union' between bodies caused by the similarity of their nature. The lodestone, Fludd wrote, 'sucketh and attracteth from his center the body of Iron unto it, drawing forth of it his formal beams, as it were his spiritual food'."
Robert Fludd
The ideas of Robert Fludd, discussed in Glassie, J. (2012). A Man of Misconceptions. The life of an eccentric in an age of change. Riverhead Books
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