As a matter of fact, however, sixteenth-century translation was obviously an unfamiliar field to most seventeenth-century commentators, and although their generalizations include all who have gone before them, their illustrations are usually drawn from the early part of their own century.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Compare the appearance of this crater with the following generalizations, which are based upon the accurate measurement of many such: A. A crater is a real depression in the surface of the moon, surrounded usually by an elevated ring which rises above the general level of the region outside, while the bottom of the crater is about an equal distance below that level.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
The examples cited by the psychologists, as well as the generalizations which they derive, bear out this interpretation.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry