On Growth and Form
by D'Arcy Thompson
Reading notes from the canto edition (1992) of the 1961 abridged edition. (first edition 1917, extended edition 1942)
“to show that a certain mathematical aspect of morphology… [is] helpful, nay essential, to proper study of Growth and Form” The book dwells in the Miraldi angle, Fibonacci Series, the logarithmic spiral and the Golden Ratio