GROWTH AND FORM

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GROWTH AND FORM

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D’ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON

Cambridge:

at the University Press

1917

“The reasonings about the wonderful and intricate operations of nature are so full of uncertainty, that, as the Wise-man truly observes, hardly do we guess aright at the things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us.” Stephen Hales, Vegetable Staticks (1727), p. 318, 1738.