Categories: Comparisons
An historical example of extended metaphor in a scientist's writing:
"The earth moreover is fertilised by the sun and conceives offspring every year."
Nicolaus Copernicus
"Meanwhile the earth has intercourse with the sun, and is impregnated for its yearly parturition."
[These are two alternative translations from the original Latin]
Copernicus, N. (1543/1978). On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
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