About this title: Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitive to the fascinations and beauty of the natural world tells of jumping fleas and slipper limpets; of buds and seeds; of bees' cells and rain drops; of the potter's thumb and the spider's web; of a film of soap and a ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Date Published: 1992-09-01
ISBN-13:9780521437769ISBN:0521437768
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780521437769ISBN:0521437768
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780521437769ISBN:0521437768
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8.5 by 1.1 inches. (368 pages) d'arcy thompson's classic on growth and form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. d'arcy thompson's classic on growth and form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. it is now available for a wider readersh1p including a ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780521437769ISBN:0521437768
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1952
Description: Volume 2. Second Edition, Reprinted. No dust jacket. Covers and backstrip are stained and wrinkled. Backstrip scuffed at both ends. Binding loose. Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. read more
Description: New. D'ÄôArcy Thompson'Äôs classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. It is now available for a wider readership including a foreword by one of today'Äôs great populisers of science. read more
"A classic. Ties to natural history... In fact I was turned onto this by Stephen Jay Gould who penned monthly essays in Natural History (the Journal)for most of his adult life. The test goes back a ways and is not accessible to the average modern reader. Its scope is broad, but it can get rather dry for the uninitiated."
"Pretty book. Pretty pretty book. Sometimes the math lost me, but his descriptions of bees building their hives, and the like are astounding portraits of nature."
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