The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book
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Peter Forbes. The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book
The Gecko’s Foot
Peter Forbes
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE Something New Under the Sun
CHAPTER TWO The Great Sacred Lotus Cleans Up
CHAPTER THREE Nature’s Nylon
CHAPTER FOUR Clinging to the Ceiling
CHAPTER FIVE The Gleam in Nature’s Eye
CHAPTER SIX The Molecular Erector Set
CHAPTER SEVEN Insects Can’t Fly
CHAPTER EIGHT Origami for Engineers
CHAPTER NINE The Push and Pull Building System
CHAPTER TEN Designing the Future (Naturally)
NOTES. Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
FURTHER READING
INDEX
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
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How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature’s Book
Leonard Harry Forbes (1916–1991)
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But, dramatically brilliant as these sciences were, they left enormous gaps. They did not begin to explain complex forms of nature, nor did they determine the composition of these forms. What the physics and biology obscured was the fact that to create functioning organs, the fundamental building blocks of atoms and molecules have to be synthesized into large structures whose properties cannot really be explained by a knowledge of which molecules compose them. The biologist Helen Ghiradella wrote in 1991, just before the bio-inspired explosion:
Many of us working in biological fields have perhaps unconsciously assumed that small things must be simple, at least more accessible to human understanding than those on a human scale. This may not be the case, and indeed, the further we investigate the more complexity we seem to find.
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