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Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Cats' Paws and Catapults Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Author: Steven Vogel
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 pulley...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393319903
ISBN-10: 0393319903
Publication Date: 1/2000
Pages: 382
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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