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D'Arcy Thompson on flight
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dc.contributor.author | Hindle, Kate | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-06T13:30:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-06T13:30:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-02-23 | |
dc.identifier | 300013658 | |
dc.identifier | 19dcb7c4-af33-4444-9a46-240d6de7819d | |
dc.identifier | 85187305274 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hindle , K 2024 , ' D'Arcy Thompson on flight ' , British Journal for the History of Mathematics , vol. Latest Articles , pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2312324 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2637-5451 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:39EE8F8D3E4470FC1E1F90AB270F9271 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/29444 | |
dc.description.abstract | D'Arcy Thompson (1860–1948) is most remembered for his influential book On Growth and Form (1917), which looked to maths to explain why biological creatures take the shapes that they take. In January 1917, a few months before this book was released, Thompson had a letter to the editor published in Nature titled ‘Stability in Flight’. Using this paper, and the response to it, as a basis, this article will investigate Thompson's relationship with mathematics, uncovering his ideas on an ideological hierarchy of subjects, where mathematics informs biology, but the reverse case is not true. It will also explore the ideas of flight Thompson discusses in the article, from the aeronautical physics paper which inspired Thompson, to the ideas on modern ornithology which agree with his work. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 | |
dc.format.extent | 662475 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | British Journal for the History of Mathematics | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.title | D'Arcy Thompson on flight | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Pure Mathematics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2312324 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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