An example of an analogy used to explain a scientific idea:
"the Under-ground World is a well fram'd House, with distinct rooms, Cellars, and Store-Houses, by great Art and Wisdom fitted together; and not, as many think, a confused and jumbled heap or Chaos of things, as it were, of Stones, Bricks, Wood, and other Materials, as the rubbish of a decayed House, or an House not yet Made."
Athanasius Kircher {1602 – 1680, polymath}
Quoted in: Burns, W. E. (2019). Knowledge and Power. Science in World History (2nd ed.). Routledge.
