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On Growth and Form Guide
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Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? DArcy Thompsons 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 potters thumb and the spiders web; of a film of soap and a bubble of oil; of a splash of a pebble in a pond. DArcy Thompsons writing, hailed as good literature as well as good science; a discourse on science as though it were a humanity, is now made available for a wider readership, with a foreword by one of todays great populisers of science, explaining the importance of the work for a new generation of readers.
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DArcy Thompsons 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 todays great populisers of science.
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Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? DArcy Thompsons 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 potters thumb and the spiders web; of a film of soap and a bubble of oil; of a splash of a pebble in a pond. DArcy Thompsons writing, hailed as good literature as well as good science; a discourse on science as though it were a humanity, is now made available for a wider readership, with a foreword by one of todays great populisers of science, explaining the importance of the work for a new generation of readers.
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DArcy Thompsons 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 todays great populisers of science.
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Of the chemistry of his day and generation, Kant declared that it was a science, but not Science-eine Wissenschaft, aber nicht Wissenschaft-for that the criterion of true science lay in its relation to mathematics. Read the first page
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Of the chemistry of his day and generation, Kant declared that it was a science, but not Science-eine Wissenschaft, aber nicht Wissenschaft-for that the criterion of true science lay in its relation to mathematics. Read the first page
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