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1838937854 
Book Flights of fancy: defying gravity by design & evolution; Richard Dawkins; illustrated by Jana Lenzova
Year: 2021
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 573.798
Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2021
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781838937850
Notes:
Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the treetops, soaring and swooping, playing and dodging through the third dimension. Computer games, virtual reality headsets, and some drugs can lift our imagination and fly us through fabled, magical spaces. But it's not the real thing. No wonder some of the past's greatest minds, including Leonardo da Vinci's, have yearned for flying machines and struggled to design them. 'Flights of Fancy' is a book about flying - all the different ways of defying gravity that have been discovered by humans over the centuries and by other animals over the millions of years, from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the Wright Flyer and the 747. But it also means flights of digression into more general ideas and principles that take off from a discussion about actual flight.
Extent: 294 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour), 24 cm, h
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