From the Book - First U.S. Edition.
Size as the Measure of All Things
Modernity's infatuation with larger sizes
Extremes, and how we got to know them
Perceptions, Illusions, Measurements
Expectations and surprises: preferred views and giant screens
Delusions of size and seeing what is not there
Measurements: the advantages of being tall
Proportions, Symmetry, and Asymmetry
Proportions: bodies, buildings, paintings
Symmetries: everywhere we look?
Golden ratio: ubiquitous or imaginary?
Size Designs: the Good, the Bad, the Outrageous
Human scale: ergonomics and airline seats
Changing sizes: incomes, machines, and vanities
Limits of size, or why some records will remain unbroken
Swift's errors, Galilei's explanations
A brief history of allometry: of skin and crab claws
Scaling of organs: brains, hearts, bones
Scaling of metabolism: what it takes to keep us alive
Metabolic theories, exceptions, uncertainties
Scaling of artifacts: the metabolism of machines
Normal distributions, giant trees, IQ, and basketball
Normal curves: from antlers to quality control
The duality of size distributions
Inverse power laws: between rarity and abundance
Orderly asymmetries or wishful thinking?
Summations for the Electronic Age.
