Why there was a useful plausible analogy between geodesic domes and spherical viruses

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 215-236

  Morgan, Gregory J ^a  

^a SPRING HILL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aaron Klug; Analogical reasoning; Buckminster Fuller; Context of discovery; Donald Caspar; Francis Crick; Geodesic dome; History of structural biology; Isomorphism; James Watson; Philosophy of biology; Quasi equivalence; Spherical virus; Tomato bushy stunt virus

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; VIRUS;

ARCHITECTURE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; VIRUSES;

EID: 34547321236     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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