Categories: Comparisons
An historical example of metaphor in science writing:
"…the great work of turning up [Nature's] hitherto unbroken soil, and exposing the treasures so long concealed."
Sir John F. W. Herschel
Herschel, J. F. W. (1830). Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy.
Tags: nature of science
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