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.