Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used to explain the history of science:
"…in the invention of the method of fluxions, or, as it is now more generally called, the differential calculus, [Isaac Newton's genius] has supplied a means of discovery, bearing the same proportion to the methods previously in use, that the steam-engine does to the mechanical powers employed before its invention."
John Frederick William Herschel
John F. W. Herschel (1830) Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy
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