{"product_id":"natures-teachings-human-invention-anticipated-by-nature-paperback-9781108000710","title":"Nature's Teachings; Human Invention Anticipated by Nature (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108000710","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNature's Teachings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHuman Invention Anticipated by Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fascinating Victorian book of popular science describing the parallels between nature and human inventions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn George Wood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108000710, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e560 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.7 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNature's Teachings, first published in 1877, was one of many books on natural history by J. G. Wood, a Victorian clergyman who was hugely influential in popularising the subject, as well as being the editor of The Boy's Own Magazine. Here he examines the close parallels between nature and human inventions in areas including seafaring (the raft, paddle and oar), war and hunting (barbs, poisons and projectiles), architecture, tools, optics and acoustics, as well as 'useful arts' including sewage disposal. His text contains over 750 figures and illustrations, and he argues that future great discoveries could be made as a result of careful observations of nature. Although a contemporary of Darwin, Wood largely ignored the evolution debates and focused on communicating his enthusiasm for the natural world to a non-scientific audience. His successful publications still make fascinating reading for those interested in Victorian culture and the history of education.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Nautical: 1. The raft\u003cbr\u003e 2. The oar, the paddle and the screw\u003cbr\u003e 3. Subsidiary appliances\u003cbr\u003e 4. Subsidiary appliances (continued)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Subsidiary appliances (continued)\u003cbr\u003e Part II. War and hunting: 1. The pitfall, the club, the sword, the spear and the dagger\u003cbr\u003e 2. Poison, animal and vegetable\u003cbr\u003e 3. Projectile weapons and the sheath\u003cbr\u003e 4. The net, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reverted spikes and their modifications, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 6. The hook, defensive armour, the fort\u003cbr\u003e 7. Scaling instruments, defence of fort, imitation, the fall-trap\u003cbr\u003e 8. Concealment, disguise, the trench, power of gravity, miscellanea\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Architecture: 1. Hut, tropic and polar\u003cbr\u003e 2. Walls, double and single\u003cbr\u003e 3. The window\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lighthouses\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Tools: 1. The digging-stick\u003cbr\u003e 2. The saw and its varieties\u003cbr\u003e 3. Boring tools\u003cbr\u003e 4. Polishing tools\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Optics: 1. The missions of history\u003cbr\u003e 2. The water-telescope\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Useful arts: 1. Primitive man and his needs\u003cbr\u003e 2. Crushing instruments\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cloth-dressing\u003cbr\u003e 4. The stopper\u003cbr\u003e 5. The principle of the spring\u003cbr\u003e 6. Spiral and ringed tissues\u003cbr\u003e 7. Food and comfort\u003cbr\u003e 8. Domestic comfort\u003cbr\u003e 9. Artificial warmth\u003cbr\u003e 10. Water, and means of procuring it\u003cbr\u003e 11. Aerostatics\u003cbr\u003e 12. The cassava press etc.\u003cbr\u003e 12. Telescopic tubes\u003cbr\u003e 14. Paper and its many uses\u003cbr\u003e 15. Electricity\u003cbr\u003e 16. Tillage\u003cbr\u003e 17. Oscillation\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. Acoustics: 1. 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