01852cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000110011910000430013024500230017326400510019630000470024733600260029433700260032033800360034650000850038250000310046750801830049852006920068153400450137365300250141865300110144385600430145499900170149755264UtSlPG20260610134255.0mcr n260607r2017||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d a18001383 aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aQHaQP1 aThompson, D'Arcy Wentworth,d1860-194810aOn Growth and Form 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2017 a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Growth_and_Form aRelease date is 2017-08-04 aChris Curnow, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) a"On Growth and Form" by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson is a scientific work published in 1917. This mathematical exploration of biology challenges evolution as the sole explanation for living organisms' shapes and structures. Thompson demonstrates how physical laws and mechanics govern biological forms, drawing striking parallels between jellyfish and falling liquid drops, bird bones and engineering trusses, and plant spirals and mathematical sequences. His famous transformation method reveals how animal skulls can be mathematically related through coordinate grids, pioneering an entirely new approach to understanding life's architecture. (This is an automatically generated summary.) nOriginal publication data not identified aMorphology (Animals) aGrowth40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55264 c96096d96096