Cats' paws and catapults :

Vogel, Steven,

Cats' paws and catapults : mechanical worlds of nature and people / Steven Vogel ; illustrated by Kathryn K. Davis with the author. - New York : Norton, 2000, - 382 pages : illustrations, graphs ; 21 cm

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.

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Biomechanics.
Mechanics.

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