D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson 'On Growth and Form" Volume II
Volume two of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s influential 'On Growth and Form", first published in 1917. Richly illustrated 650 pages with innumerable monochrome plates and diagrams. And with fascinating sections headings such as: the forms and tissues of floating drops; on concretions, spicules, etc. of certain rhythmic phenomena; concerning gnomons; the equilangular spiral of bivalve shells; the shapes of horns, on leaf arrangement.
On Growth and Form influenced the work of a generation of artists including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both poetic and mathematical in its detailed observations of scale, gravity, order and processes, Thompson’s iconic study stressed the physical and mechanical patterns underlying biological growth and structure. “Sir D’Arcy Thompson’s Growth and Form tells a fascinating tale of the types of shape which living things, both plant and creature, assume; and tells it with a wealth and ease of learning which contribute to making his book the favourite it is with a host of biologists and has been for a generation past.” - Sir Charles Sherrington, from the inside front flap.
Title: 'On Growth and Form" Volume II
Author: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1962 (3rd reprint of the 1942 second edition. First published in 1917)
Format: Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket
Pages: 650 pages
Condition: Very good. ex-library copy.
Stock Number: RB03581
Volume two of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s influential 'On Growth and Form", first published in 1917. Richly illustrated 650 pages with innumerable monochrome plates and diagrams. And with fascinating sections headings such as: the forms and tissues of floating drops; on concretions, spicules, etc. of certain rhythmic phenomena; concerning gnomons; the equilangular spiral of bivalve shells; the shapes of horns, on leaf arrangement.
On Growth and Form influenced the work of a generation of artists including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both poetic and mathematical in its detailed observations of scale, gravity, order and processes, Thompson’s iconic study stressed the physical and mechanical patterns underlying biological growth and structure. “Sir D’Arcy Thompson’s Growth and Form tells a fascinating tale of the types of shape which living things, both plant and creature, assume; and tells it with a wealth and ease of learning which contribute to making his book the favourite it is with a host of biologists and has been for a generation past.” - Sir Charles Sherrington, from the inside front flap.
Title: 'On Growth and Form" Volume II
Author: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1962 (3rd reprint of the 1942 second edition. First published in 1917)
Format: Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket
Pages: 650 pages
Condition: Very good. ex-library copy.
Stock Number: RB03581
Volume two of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s influential 'On Growth and Form", first published in 1917. Richly illustrated 650 pages with innumerable monochrome plates and diagrams. And with fascinating sections headings such as: the forms and tissues of floating drops; on concretions, spicules, etc. of certain rhythmic phenomena; concerning gnomons; the equilangular spiral of bivalve shells; the shapes of horns, on leaf arrangement.
On Growth and Form influenced the work of a generation of artists including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both poetic and mathematical in its detailed observations of scale, gravity, order and processes, Thompson’s iconic study stressed the physical and mechanical patterns underlying biological growth and structure. “Sir D’Arcy Thompson’s Growth and Form tells a fascinating tale of the types of shape which living things, both plant and creature, assume; and tells it with a wealth and ease of learning which contribute to making his book the favourite it is with a host of biologists and has been for a generation past.” - Sir Charles Sherrington, from the inside front flap.
Title: 'On Growth and Form" Volume II
Author: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1962 (3rd reprint of the 1942 second edition. First published in 1917)
Format: Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket
Pages: 650 pages
Condition: Very good. ex-library copy.
Stock Number: RB03581
