Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel, Kathryn K. Davis

Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People

Steven Vogel, Kathryn K. Davis

384 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced

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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 angle...

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