{"product_id":"patterns-in-nature-0316813311-used","title":"Patterns in Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0316813311\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stevens, Peter S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd this our life, exempt from public haunt,\u003cbr\u003eFinds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,\u003cbr\u003eSermons in stones, and good in everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eShakespeare,\u003cbr\u003eAS YOU LIKE IT, Act II, Sc. I\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a stunning synthesis of art and science, Peter Stevens explores the universal patterns in which nature expresses herself. He provides a fresh way of viewing and understanding the physical world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we see how the branching of trees resembles the branching of arteries and the branching of rivers, how crystal grains look like soap bubbles and the plates of a tortoises shell, how the fiddleheads of ferns, stellar galaxies, and water emptying from the bathtub spiral in a similar manner, then we cannot help but wonder why nature uses only a few kindred forms in so many contextsIt turns out that those patterns and forms are peculiarly restricted, that the immense variety that nature creates emerges from the working and reworking of only a few formal themes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn elegant and lucid prose, illuminated by hundreds of extraordinary photographs and geometrical drawings, Stevens examines those themes - spirals, meanders, branching patterns, explosions - and explains how they evolve according to the laws of stress, flow, turbulence, least effort, surface tension, close packing, and most important, the constraints of three-dimensional space. Stevens insights about space and its limitations enable us to compare a lightning stroke with the tributaries of a river, and a splash of milk with galaxies in the heavens. He explores the spiral of a seashell, the markings of a giraffe, the spikes of an inkblot. His investigation carries him from the evolution of trees to the drifting of the continents, from the packing of billiard balls to black holes in space, and everywhere he rigorously shows us not only the individual beauty of natural objects, but the underlying harmony that they share.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePATTERNS IN NATURE is a pleasure to read and to behold, a vivid and original piece of scholarship whose implications will influence scientists, architects and engineers for years to come - and whose aesthetic truth will enrich our appreciation of the natural world.","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67759567044896,"sku":"USED0316813311","price":33.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61OwR1eWmiL.jpg?v=1791955837","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/patterns-in-nature-0316813311-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}