Characteristics of The Metaphor
David Luban has analysed four different sides of the metaphorical usage, deriving from different aspects of the Copernican Revolution as it is understood in the history of science, and its wider impact on thought:
- a sense of uprootedness within cosmology;
- a way of representing the path of reason and Enlightenment;
- mistrust of common sense as a guide to truth;
- a world-picture based on scientific laws rather than narratives.
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