By Theodor Schwenk, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Why does water, in streams and rivers, regularly take a winding path? Do universal ideas and rhythms underlie the flow of water, no matter if or not it's within the sea or in a plant -- or within the blood of a person? The legislation published within the refined styles of water in move are proven during this thought-provoking paintings to be just like these perceptible within the shaping of bones, muscle tissues, and myriads of alternative types in nature. Lavishly illustrated, delicate Chaos exhibits the unifying forces that underlie all dwelling issues, and observes such phenomena because the flight of birds; the formation of inner organs reminiscent of the center, eye, and ear, air styles in musical tools; the formation of mountain levels and river deltas; climate and house styles; or even the formation of the human embryo.
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The bony structures are formed of the deer whereby the inner in the nose like vortices, surface is greatly enlarged {from v. Frisch) A particularly clear picture of a train of vortices in soUdified the deer. It is as though the bony structure had soUdified out of the liquid state in the created, past form of a which the acute sense of smell. (We air train of vortices. ) nose of the deer 54 the bony structure in the we shall its very The accompanying sketches are of course dealing with three dimensional structures which have more in of form Large surfaces are thus shall see later that these formations are also appropriate to the laws of Enlarged detail of form can be found in the organs of smell of certain animals, as for example common be dealing with in the next chapter.
This archetypal movement outside layers turn of water in spirally winding surfaces has already been described in Water around a whirlpool moves in spirals chapter. the first We come its own to realise that the vortex — a figure forms, rhythms and movements. find that the vortex inside is is with its On complete in closely akin to the great it with closer examination different speeds system. Apart from minor details, itself —slow movements of we outside, fast the planetary follows Kepler's Second Law of planetary movement: a given planet circles round the sun as though in a vortex in as much as it moves fast when near the sun and slowly when further away.
This shows movement to be independent of space, though appearing in it as a regulating principle. Every movement has a certain speed, own its characteristic speed. A movement is given character by being either fast or slow, sluggish or active, brisk or hesitant. is its rhythm; we can learn which the rhythms Still more characteristic much about is the beings of nature through are an integral part of them. In the realm of water the same applies. stretch of water The individual nature of any given an unmistakable character by the speed, size and rhythm of its wave formations.