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Celebrato come un classico della biologia, questo libro pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1917 è, come ha scritto il premio Nobel per la medicina Peter Medawar, «senza dubbio l’esempio più perfetto di quella difficile disciplina che consiste nel tradurre con la massima precisione i concetti in parole». Si tratta di uno dei libri che maggiormente hanno contribuito a trasformare in scienza dinamica quella che tradizionalmente era una statica attività descrittiva. Dai fondamenti filosofici della biologia alle relazioni tra la forma e la grandezza degli organismi, dall’analisi dello scheletro come meccanismo allo studio delle forme geometriche presenti in natura, Thompson chiarisce complessi problemi biologici e classificatori, con costanti riferimenti ai grandi studiosi del passato che, da Aristotele a Galileo, Réaumur, Roux, hanno guidato lo sviluppo dell’odierna morfologia sperimentale.
- ISBN: 8833927954
- Casa Editrice: Bollati Boringhieri
- Pagine: 384
- Data di uscita: 09-06-2016
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This book is a meticulous work that's both thought provoking and inspiring in its scope. There are plenty of profound, even poetic, insights scattered throughout a density of seemingly sterile precision. An especially interesting holism can be found in the chapter titled 'On the Theory of Transforma Leggi tutto
This is elegantly written book of scientific exploration. It is long, but the journey is compensated by sharing the thoughts of someone trying to work an idea out. The author had translated Aristotle, and this may be the last book of scientific philosophy in that style of speculation without experim Leggi tutto
"On Growth and Form" is a brilliant piece of scientific literature written by a true renaissance man. This remarkably varied book describes the wondrous diversity of patterns we see in nature, yet helps us to see the unity in their origins, through detailed explanations of the simple, common rules t Leggi tutto
Many of you consider yourselves readers, but no one can call himself/herself a reader if they have not thoroughly made their way through this ergodic text. Consider the following inviting attributions which one will find in the course of a leisurely afternoon lakeside: 1. Citation: The author's anal Leggi tutto
I read the modern reprint by Dover. I highly recommend this classic book, but I also recommend anyone avoid the Canto abridged edition pictured here.
It seems to me after reading this book that evolution once was seen as purposefully working in ways which could be said to behave along the lines of the coordinates plotted by Cartesian geometry. For my next cycle through my devised reading schedule, I plan to read Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, Leggi tutto
This is an abridged version; the 1942 edition is over a thousand pages. The editor has taken advantage of the abridgement to cut out passages he considers outdated. The book is apparently considered a classic of sorts; it deals with the growth and forms of living organisms, from microbial life to th Leggi tutto
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