On Growth and Form (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- First Published: 1917
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Nature, Life, biological, Mathematics or mathematicians, Animals, Plants, Biology or biologists
Form and Content
On Growth and Form appeared in the summer of 1917, the second of four books D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson produced in a long career as scientist, author, translator, and editor. His only volume on a strictly scientific subject, On Growth and Form was conceived by the author around 1912 and had been promised to Cambridge University Press as a little book to cost no more than two or three shillings. In the course of distilling nearly three decades of observations on the forms of plants and animals, Thompson saw his book grow to more than eight...
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