![]() ![]() Most of them cannot even be said to have much in common: Jupiter's red spot cannot be explained in the same way as the shape of a honeycomb cell. The diversity of the issues that Philip Ball takes on in his trilogy on nature's patterns is overwhelming. Why are honeycomb cells hexagonal? Why do spotted animals tend to have striped tails? And, for that matter, why are animal pelts so often spotted or striped, rather than endowed with, say, a rectangular grid? Why does Jupiter have a giant red spot? It's an interesting and challenging read, but perhaps a single book would have sufficed. With the "Nature's Patterns" trilogy, Philip Ball gives us an eclectic, yet surprisingly coherent overview of all kinds of patterns that are found in nature. Oxford University Press, 2011 (Paperback)Ĭonclusion From turbulent rivers to auto-catalytic chemical reactions. ![]()
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