Iatromathematics to Biomechanics

Abstract

‘They're infiltrating every sphere

Except perhaps theology,

And now we find the engineer

Researching in biology.

There on the operation floor

If you should stop and peer

With surgeons ankle-deep in gore

You'll see—an engineer.’

T. Gibson (Uncollected Verses, 1964)

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