Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part One: The notion of metaphor and its relation to the discourse of physics -- 2. Approaches to metaphor: past and present -- 2.1. A short history of metaphor -- 2.2. Metaphor, an enemy of science: the early modern view -- 2.3. Metaphor, a friend of science: contemporary physicists on scientific language -- 2.4. Current paradigms in research on metaphor in science -- 3. Identifying metaphor in physical science: sorts, functions, and related concepts -- 3.1. Metaphor and related concepts -- 3.2. A working definition of metaphor -- 3.3. Sorts and functions of metaphor in physical discourse -- Part Two: Metaphors in physics -- 4. Underlying metaphors of everyday thought in meta-theory and the concept formation of physics -- 4.1. Hypostasis -- 4.2. Spatial metaphor -- 4.3. Animism and anthropomorphism -- 5. World theories in meta-theory and the concept formation -- 5.1. The notions "world theory" and "world model" -- 5.2. World machine -- 5.3. The world as a text -- 6. Stipulative reference extension -- 6.1. Stipulation of meaning: Huygens' notion of sound wave -- 6.2. Invisible light and Roentgen's "invisible rays" -- 7. Assimilative metaphor -- 7.1. "Fluid" electricity -- 7.2. The concept of wave -- 7.3. Life stories of metaphor: from metaphorical to literal and literal to metaphorical -- 8. Theory-constitutive and educational metaphors -- 8.1. Constitutive metaphor: waves of probability -- 8.2. Educational metaphor: curvature of space -- 8.3. From explanation to rhetoric -- 9. Metaphor and style: "figures of speech" in the language of physics -- 9.1. The position of "figures of speech" in the discourse of physics -- 9.2. The arrow of time -- 9.3. Heat death -- 9.4. Maxwell's demon -- 10. Transfer of denotations in the terminology of physics.

10.1. Metaphors in general language and in the terminology of physics: the general language basis for the transfer of denotations -- 10.2. Types of transfer of denotations -- 10.3. The terminology of physics and related disciplines -- 10.4. Fantasy-metaphor: the case of particle physics -- 10.5. "Mechanical work": underlying metaphor, world theory, scientific analogy -- 10.6. Catachresis and satellite metaphors -- 10.7. Mathematical analogy -- 11. Thoughts and conclusions -- References.