Size: How It Explains the World

By Vaclav Smil

Categories: Science & Math

Size (2023) is Vaclav Smil's book about how size shapes nature and human life. He covers why we perceive size the way we do, how measurement developed, and why some things scale up well and others do not. He ranges from the human body and animals to buildings, machines and cities, and he explains symmetry, the golden ratio and the normal distribution.

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