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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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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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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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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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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(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 from...
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Chapter 1.". History of Animals (Περί ζώων ιστορίας). trans. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. "Paradoxography - Antigonus"...
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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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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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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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as not being by Aristotle. In the preface to his translation, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson calls it "spurious beyond question". The History of Animals contains...
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"moray". thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved 11 December 2016. d'Arcy, Wentworth Thompson (1947). Glossary of Greek Fishes. London, CT: Oxford University...
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John Light 2008–2017: Marco Longmore 2017–present: Barry Welsh D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, classicist, taught at the school from 1852 to 1863 Arthur Pressland...
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ISBN 0-19-861186-2. Aristotle (2015). The History of Animals. Translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Aeterna Press. p. 49. "Magdalenian Girl is a woman and therefore...
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[c. 343 BCE]. "Book V". The History of Animals. translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 90-6186-973-0. Archived from the...
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people Craig Thompson (disambiguation), multiple people D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948), Scottish biologist and mathematician Daley Thompson (born 1958)...
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2013 Aristotle, History of Animals 8.12, 892a12. Translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Dembner, S. A. (ed.). "Forest peoples in the central African...
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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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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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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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by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in his 1917 book On Growth and Form and Alan Turing in his The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952). Where Thompson explained...
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migration. Hjort's research elicited debate from the biomathematician D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, who later rescinded his criticisms. His research otherwise received...
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Dennett Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Invention by Norbert Wiener Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter...
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In his "eccentric, beautiful" 1917 book On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson revisited the old idea of "universal laws of form" to explain...
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Patrick Geddes Tracey Gloster Adrian Horridge Susan D. Healy D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Business and Management Meaghan Delahunt Robert Gray Chemistry...
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mechanical." Similarly, in 1917, Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson noted “…though they resemble known physical phenomena, their nature...
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Lamarckism and fell into disrepute until the early 20th century, when D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948) attempted to revive it. The psychiatrist and engineer...
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Press, 1996. Aristotle.The History of Animals, translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Vol. 4 of The Works of Aristotle. Oxford: Oxford University Press...
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Wentworth D'Arcy Uhr (31 October 1845 – 18 February 1907) was an officer in the paramilitary Native Police in the British colony of Queensland. After being...
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Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Johannes Kuenen, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Angus McGillivray and Sir James Walker. He resigned from the...
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