Second Edition
New features of the second edition include:
- Now in full color throughout
- Expansion of the developmental and therapeutic aspects of biotensegrity to consider:
- A more thorough look at life’s internal processes
- Closed kinematic chains as the new biomechanics
- Embryological development as an evolutionary process
- The human body as a constantly evolving system based on a set of unchanging principles
- Emergence, heterarchies, soft-matter and small-world networks
- A deeper look at what constitutes the therapeutic process
Chapters
- Tensegrity
- Simple geometry in complex organisms
- The balance of unseen forces
- The problem with mechanics
- The autonomous cell
- The twist in the tale
- The ease of motion
- The ‘hard’ and the ‘soft’
- A closer look
- ‘Complex’ patterns in biology
- Biotensegrity: a rational approach to biomechanics
- Biotensegrity: the structural basis of life
Appendices
- Tensegrity models
- Muscle volume and crossed helical fiber angle
- The questionable hydrostat
- The avian lung
- Closed-chain kinematics and embryological development
