The author claims the motivation to write this book was to fulfill Kant's stipulation about what counts as true science for physiology and the natural sciences. Chapter VI is devoted entirely to the Equiangular Spiral and its appearance in nature. In its most famous chapter,
The author claims the motivation to write this book was to fulfill Kant's stipulation about what counts as true science for physiology and the natural sciences. Chapter VI is devoted entirely to the Equiangular Spiral and its appearance in nature. In its most famous chapter, "On the Theory of Transformations," the author depicts how the Argyropelecus olfersi  and the Sternoptyx diaphana  two different species of fish are related via mathematical shear mapping. Stephen Jay Gould calls it in the foreword, the greatest work of prose in twentieth-century science. For 10  points, name this classic 1917 work on the study of the mathematics of biological form written by the Scottish biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.
The author claims the motivation to write this book was to fulfill Kant's stipulation about what counts as true science for physiology and the natural sciences.
On Growth and Form