By D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson,John Tyler Bonner

ISBN-10: 1371927383

ISBN-13: 9781371927387

ISBN-10: 198781763X

ISBN-13: 9781987817638

Why do dwelling issues and actual phenomena take the shape they do? D'Arcy Thompson's vintage On development and shape appears to be like on the means issues develop and the shapes they take. Analysing organic techniques of their mathematical and actual points, this old paintings, first released in 1917, has additionally develop into popular for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. a superb scientist delicate to the fascinations and wonder of the flora and fauna tells of leaping fleas and slipper limpets; of buds and seeds; of bees' cells and rain drops; of the potter's thumb and the spider's net; of a movie of cleaning soap and a bubble of oil; of a dash of a pebble in a pond.

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