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On Growth and Form

by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson · 1942

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Why do living things and physical phenomena take the forms they do? Analyzing the mathematical and physical aspects of biological processes, this historic work, first published in 1917, has become renowned as well for the poetry of is descriptions.

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medium · 368 pages

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