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-====On Growth and Form==== +You have shed a ray of sunsinhe into the forum. Thanks!
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-by D'Arcy Thompson +
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-[[Reading notes]] form the canto edition (1992) of the 1961 abridged edition. (first edition 1917, extended edition 1942) +
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-"to show that a certain mathematical aspect of morphology... [is] helpful, nay essential, to proper study of Growth and Form" The book dwells in the Miraldi angle, [[Fibonacci Series]], the logarithmic spiral and the [[Golden Ratio]] +
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-====On Spicules and Spicular Skeletons==== +
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-ch. 5 page 132 - concerning the deposition of inorganic material in the living body +
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-the inorganic material may be subject to chemical forces (eg crystalisation) on on level and "moulded to the living organism" shaped by cells, tissues and so on. +
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