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020 _a9781107589070 (ebook)
020 _z9781107672567 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
050 4 _aQP84
_b.T466 2014
082 0 4 _a571.31
_223
100 1 _aThompson, D'Arcy Wentworth,
_d1860-1948,
_eauthor.
240 1 0 _aOn growth and form.
_sAbridgement
245 1 0 _aOn growth and form /
_cby D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.
246 3 _aOn Growth & Form
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (xx, 345 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCanto classics
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aWhy 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 bubble of oil; of a splash of a pebble in a pond.
650 0 _aGrowth.
650 0 _aMorphology (Animals)
700 1 _aBonner, John Tyler,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107672567
830 0 _aCanto classics.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107589070
999 _c517752
_d517750