• D'Arcy Wentworth (14 February 1762 – 7 July 1827) was an Irish-Australian surgeon and the first paying passenger to arrive in the new colony of New South...
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    Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of...
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    On Growth and Form is a book by the Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948). The book is long – 793 pages in the first edition...
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    for the Australian colonies, son of D'Arcy Wentworth. D'Arcy Wentworth Jr. (1793–1861), son of D'Arcy Wentworth, was from 1843 to 1845 a member of the...
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  • cricketer D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948), Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar, son of the English scholar of the same name D'Arcy Wentworth...
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  • D'Arcy Wentworth, born Dorset Crowley (23 June 1793 – 21 July 1861), was a New South Wales army captain, police magistrate and politician. He was born...
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  • Darcy Thompson may refer to: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948), Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar Darcy Thompson (cyclist), Australian...
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    estate to the north, called "Home Bush" and owned by colonial surgeon D'Arcy Wentworth, via the historic Homebush railway station, named after the estate...
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    Charles Wentworth was born on the vessel HMS Surprize off the coast of the penal settlement of Norfolk Island in August 1790 to D'Arcy Wentworth and Catherine...
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  • D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1829–1902) was an English scholar, from 1863 Professor of Greek at Queen's College, Galway. D'Arcy was the elder son of John...
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    lattice of cells within a given volume. A second reason, given by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, is that the shape simply results from the process of individual...
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    regarded as not being by Aristotle. In the preface to his translation, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson calls it "spurious beyond question". The History of Animals...
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  • natural patterns such as the spirals of phyllotaxis, were written by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in his 1917 book On Growth and Form and Alan Turing in his...
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    Parramatta area, paving the way for future developments and land grants. D’Arcy Wentworth received land grants to assist with the food needs of the growing Sydney...
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    Aristotle (1910) [c. 343 BCE]. "Book V". History of Animals. translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-90-6186-973-3. Archived...
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    "Book 2. Chapter 1.". History of Animals (Περί ζώων ιστορίας). trans. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. "Paradoxography...
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    Birmingham and his nephew (son of his sister Fanny Gamgee) was Prof Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948). Kapadia, H M (1 February 2002). "Sampson Gamgee:...
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    Befruchtung der Blumen (The Fertilisation of Flowers, 1883) [Translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson with a Preface by Charles Darwin] "Westfalens Laubmoose, gesammelt...
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    by the colonies assistant surgeon D'Arcy Wentworth. According to local government historian Michael Jones, "Wentworth is popularly credited with having...
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    deteriorating in 1793 with public farming crop failures. In August 1819, D’Arcy Wentworth was granted land to assist with food production to the Colony. European...
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  • Bindon Blood Stoney D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - Professor of Greek at UCG from 1862 and father of biologist Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson [citation needed]...
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    com. "moray". thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved 11 December 2016. d'Arcy, Wentworth Thompson (1947). Glossary of Greek Fishes. London, CT: Oxford University...
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    2013. Philochorus: Scholion to Aristophanes, Birds 1106. Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth. A glossary of Greek birds. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1895, pp 45–46...
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    Governor King award him an absolute pardon. In 1804 assistant surgeon D’Arcy Wentworth arrived on Norfolk Island to take charge of the hospital and Redfern...
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    Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 16 January 2011. Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth (1910). A History of Animals. Clarendon Press. Dalby, A. (2003). Food...
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    Aristotle Invented Science. Penguin. ISBN 9780698170391. Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth (1913). On Aristotle as a biologist, with a prooemion on Herbert Spencer...
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    depends on mathematical factors in the geometric growth, as described in D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's classic 1917 book On Growth and Form, and by David Raup...
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  • a motor vehicle, such as an automobile, truck or train. Dry weight D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, a scholar Deadweight tonnage, an expression of a ship's carrying...
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    γλαυκός in Liddell and Scott. ὤψ in Liddell and Scott. Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth (1895). A glossary of Greek birds. Oxford, Clarendon Press. p. 45....
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    Church studied the patterns of phyllotaxis in his 1904 book. In 1917, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson published On Growth and Form; his description of phyllotaxis...
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