Categories: Comparisons
An example of a simile used in the work iof a scientist:
"I took a good clear piece of Cork, and with a Pen-knife sharpen'd as keen as a Razor, I cut a piece of it off, and…cut off from the former smooth surface an exceeding thin piece of it, and…I could exceeding plainly perceive it to be all perforated and porous, much like a Honey-comb, but that the pores of it were not regular; yet it was not unlike a Honey-comb in these particulars
…these pores, or cells, were not very deep, but consisted of a great many little Boxes…
Robert Hooke
Hooke, R. (1665). Micrographia.
Read: Cells are buzzing cities that are balloons with harpoons
[Please be aware that a word may have different nuances, or even a different meaning, according to context.]« Back to Index
