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Plant Physics
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Hardcover
With Karl J. Niklas |
from Univ of Chicago Pr (March 5, 2012)
9780226586328 | details & prices | 426 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $64.00
About: From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be based on his study of the dandelion’s pappus and the maple tree’s samara, many of our greatest physicists, mathematicians, and engineers have learned much from studying plants.
About: From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be based on his study of the dandelion’s pappus and the maple tree’s samara, many of our greatest physicists, mathematicians, and engineers have learned much from studying plants.
Paperback
With Karl J. Niklas |
Reprint edition from Univ of Chicago Pr (February 4, 2014)
9780226150819 | details & prices | 426 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $40.00