À propos of biomimetic design: Drawing of a hull shape based on that of a fish from Matthew Baker's 'Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightry' (ca. 1586)pic.twitter.com/eOpyTGkIfd
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Drawing of streamlining around a body in motion from Fredrik Henrik af Chapman’s 'Tractat om skepps-byggerie', translated into English in 1820 as 'A Treatise on Ship-building' (fig. 14)pic.twitter.com/ljxqLTABr5
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Here's the pdf of the book http://www.memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2010/20100616002tr/20100616002tr.pdf … and here's where I first read about it: 'Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real' by Bernhard Siegert https://books.google.at/books?id=ZKnKBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Cultural+Techniques:+Grids,+Filters,+Doors,+and+Other+Articulations+of+the+Real&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih2pmk78HbAhXFVhQKHWQ7BVQQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/vk8jh0KC6z
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It looks like a woodcut to me!
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This is a detail of figure No. 14 (plate 3) from the mentioned book
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