An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

THOMPSON, D'Arcy Wentworth

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On growth and form.

Cambridge, England: at the University Press, 1917.

Thompson's description of the mathematical beauty of nature eventually inspired others, such as Alan Turing, to develop the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants and animals. Digital facsimile of the 1917 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Digital facsimile of Thompson's revised second edition (1942) from the Internet Archive at this link. Abridged edition edited by John Tyler Bonner, Cambridge, 1992.



Subjects: BIOLOGY, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology