DIGIRENT - Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Steven Vogel
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Cats' Paws and Catapults: Steven Vogel epub Cats' Paws and Catapults: Steven Vogel pdf download Cats' Paws and Catapults: Steven Vogel pdf file Cats' Paws and Catapults: Steven Vogel audiobook Cats' Paws and Catapults: Steven Vogel book review Cats' Paws and Catapults: Steven Vogel summary | #617933 in Books | W.W. Norton & Co | 1998-05 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.50 x1.50l, | File type: PDF | 382 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Nice title; disappointing book--for me|By larryrobert|I bought this book based on a mention in a newspaper review and was very disappointed. I am a retired biochemist/chemist and am constantly reading books on science (outside my area of expertise) and, for me at least, this book was hard to stay with (it is not that it was too technical) and I gave up after about 2/3 of the w|.com |"Life is what biology's all about. Technology is something else altogether. Or so I believed before I got into a kind of biology that's about technology as well as life," begins biomechanics expert Steven Vogel in the preface to Cats' Paws and Catapult
Human technology has taken 10,000 years to develop; natures mechanical designs are billions of years old. Both technologies share the same physical environment but produce vastly different results. Human designers love right angles, but nature is typically rounded and its angles are diverse. We use wheels in numerous ways, yet nature's only true wheels lie in bacteria. We prefer to make surface ships, while nature swims. Our hinges turn because their parts slide, whereas...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People | Steven Vogel. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
