A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them
Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery “if you wish to save me from a miserable death.” The legendary naturalist was hardly alone in feeling tormented by these patterns. Plant spirals captured the gaze of Leonardo da Vinci and became Alan Turing’s final obsession. This book tells the storie...
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Stéphane Douady
, who has researched plant patterns for thirty years, is a silver medalist CNRS director of research in the Matière et Systèmes Complexes laboratory at P...
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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 352 ● ISBN 9780691261089 ● Размер файла 260.0 MB ● издатель Princeton University Press ● город Princeton ● Страна US ● опубликованный 2024 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 9374653 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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