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020			_a9781107325852 (ebook)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050		4	_aQP84 _b.T4 1992
082	0	4	_a574.4 _220
100	1		_aThompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, _d1860-1948, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aOn growth and form / _cby D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.
246	3		_aOn Growth & Form
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1992.
300			_a1 online resource (xxii, 345 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCanto
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. D'Arcy Thompson's 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 today's great populisers of science, explaining the importance of the work for a new generation of readers.
650		0	_aGrowth.
650		0	_aMorphology (Animals)
700	1		_aBonner, John Tyler, _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521437769
830		0	_aCanto.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107325852
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