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)
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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)
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This is a detail of figure No. 14 (plate 3) from the mentioned book