Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People - Paperback
by Steven Vogel
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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven Vogel, Kathryn K. Davis (Illustrator)Publish date:1998-01-01Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393319903ISBN-10:393319903UPC:9780393319903Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, PhysicsBook Topic:Anatomy & PhysiologySize:7.92 x 6.25 x 0.95 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCJAAT69XK
Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature's angles are rarely right and usually rounded. Our technology goes around on wheels--and on rotating pulleys, gears, shafts, and cams--yet in nature only the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393319903ISBN-10:393319903UPC:9780393319903Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, PhysicsBook Topic:Anatomy & PhysiologySize:7.92 x 6.25 x 0.95 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCJAAT69XK
Vogel, Steven: - Steven Vogel (1940--2015) was James B. Duke Professor of Biology at Duke University. He was a prolific author of popular works on the intersection of physics and biology such as Cats' Paws and Catapults and Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle.
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