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![Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdzBWV1E9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b541e1305c1298b7f69512c135630103794b2866/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Cats'%20Paws%20and%20Catapults-%20Mechanical%20Worlds%20of%20Nature%20and%20People.jpg)
384 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393319903
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 January 2000
Description
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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![Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdzBWV1E9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b541e1305c1298b7f69512c135630103794b2866/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Cats'%20Paws%20and%20Catapults-%20Mechanical%20Worlds%20of%20Nature%20and%20People.jpg)
384 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393319903
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 January 2000
Description
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...