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Cats' Paws and Catapults Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People

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ISBN-10: 0393319903

ISBN-13: 9780393319903

Edition: 2000

Authors: Steven Vogel

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Preface
Noncoincident Worlds
Two Schools of Design
The Matter of Magnitude
Surfaces, Angles, and Corners
The Stiff and the Soft
Two Routes to Rigidity
Pulling versus Pushing
Engines for the Mechanical Worlds
Putting Engines to Work
About Pumps, Jets, and Ships
Making Widgets
Copying, in Retrospect
Copying, Present and Prospective
Contrasts, Convergences, and Consequences
Notes
References
Index