Categories: Comparisons
An exmple of using analogy and metaphor in explaining science
"…the geometry of [Isaac] Newton was like the bow of Ulysses, which none but its master could bend; and that, to render his methods available beyond the points to which he himself carried them, it was necessary to strip them of every vestige of that antique dress in which he had delighted to clothe them"
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Herschel, J. F. W. (1830/1851/2017). Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy.
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