Saturn is like a gateway drug

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An example of simile and metaphor in science writing:

"…Huygens's discoveries do surely have an intoxicating appeal. As [an] American science writer has suggested, haloed Saturn is, for many amateurs, the 'gateway drug' to their astronomical habit."

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

(I am considering the 'gateway drug' reference as simile, as the inverted comma mark that this is only meant as a comparison.)

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Saturn with its 'halo': Image by WikiImages from Pixabay

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.