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Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People Paperback / softback - 1998
by Steven Vogel
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- Paperback
Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials. Why do their designs diverge so sharply? Vogel compares these two worlds and introduces the reader to his field of biomechanics, explaining how the nexus of physical law, size, and convenience of construction determines the designs of both people and nature. Illustrations.
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- Title Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
- Author Steven Vogel
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Condition New
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-01-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780393319903
- ISBN 9780393319903 / 0393319903
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 7.92 x 6.25 x 0.95 in (20.12 x 15.88 x 2.41 cm)
- Reading level 1210
- Library of Congress subjects Mechanics, Biomechanics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97044807
- Dewey Decimal Code 571.43
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When some of us were much younger-for me the late 1940s-we read Flash Gordon every Sunday in the comics.