The History of Metaphors of Nature: Science and Literature from Homer to Al Gore, Tập 2Edwin Mellen Press, 2006 - 925 trang This book shows how modern European Languages have a large number of metaphors which represent the whole of nature. Metaphors used in natural science and literature, such as Mother Nature, have a powerful influence on the framing of scientific hypothesis making, and these words have guided the history of natural science for several millennia, while also influencing North American nature writing. |
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... light . Light created Good Mind , and the sky , water , earth , plants animals and humanity . Ahura Mazda made the six million , four hundred and eighty thousand small stars which were an army of good soldiers ready to aid the god of light ...
... light . Light created Good Mind , and the sky , water , earth , plants animals and humanity . Ahura Mazda made the six million , four hundred and eighty thousand small stars which were an army of good soldiers ready to aid the god of light ...
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... light : and there was light . And God saw the light , that it was good . And God called the light Day and the darkness He called Night . And the evening and the morning were the first day " ( Genesis 1 : 1-5 ) . The whole universe seems ...
... light : and there was light . And God saw the light , that it was good . And God called the light Day and the darkness He called Night . And the evening and the morning were the first day " ( Genesis 1 : 1-5 ) . The whole universe seems ...
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... light had a finite velocity , using the moons of Jupiter . Augustin Jean Fresnel ( 1788 - 1827 ) , the great optical physicist and engineer , showed that the velocity of light differs from a body at rest and a body in motion in 1815 ...
... light had a finite velocity , using the moons of Jupiter . Augustin Jean Fresnel ( 1788 - 1827 ) , the great optical physicist and engineer , showed that the velocity of light differs from a body at rest and a body in motion in 1815 ...
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