Comment by kristopolous

Go read any article in the first 200 years or so of philtrans. There's lots of crucial science there written in a way that doesn't have the modern trappings of the form. It's good reading. Maybe some style perturbations borrowed from earlier eras would be good

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Benjamin Franklin, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Maxwell, Ohm and Volt - they're all there. If that style was good enough for them ...