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Hardcover The Animal as a Machine and a Prime Motor, and the Laws of Energetics Book

ISBN: 1019799978

ISBN13: 9781019799970

The Animal as a Machine and a Prime Motor, and the Laws of Energetics

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An exploration of the physical laws governing the motion and energy of animals, written by Robert Henry Thurston in 1895. The book proposes that animals are best understood as mechanical systems subject to the same laws of thermodynamics as machines, and offers a novel perspective on the relationship between biology and physics.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...

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