Keywords:
Morphology (Animals).
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 readership including a foreword by one of today's great populisers of science.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (373 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107263222
Series Statement:
Canto Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1218079
DDC:
571.8
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I Introductory -- II On Magnitude -- III The Forms of Cells -- IV The Forms of Tissues, or Cell-aggregates -- V On Spicules and Spicular Skeletons -- VI The Equiangular Spiral -- VII The Shapes of Horns and of Teeth or Tusks -- VIII On Form and Mechanical Efficiency -- IX On the Theory of Transformations, or the Comparison of Related Forms -- X Epilogue -- Index.
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