...of letters describe beauty as essentially illusion and leave it to Mr. Thompson to write like this: "The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number. . . . A greater than Verhaeren had this in mind when he told of 'the golden compasses, prepared in...

...just as Einstein's did not play dice with the universe. D'Arcy Thompson tells us in the epilogue: For the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form...are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty ... A greater than Milton had magnified the theme and glorified Him 'that sitteth upon the circle of...

...energy and the focus of forces. As he said in the epilogue of the second edition of On Growth and Form, '...the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number.. .(for)...the perfection of mathematical beauty is such... that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular...

...Thompson was interested in the relationship between mathematics and the generation of form. He wrote that the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form...are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. (Thompson, 1961) This relationship, which must be of interest to designers, is beautifully illustrated...

...Presidential Address to Section 'A' of the British Association (p. 654) Thompson, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form...are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. On Growth and Form Volume I Chapter 10 Thoreau, Henry David The most distinct and beautiful statements...

...absolute physical laws expressed by mathematics. He cited Plato and Pythagoras with approval, stating that "the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul of all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty." D'Arcy...

...GE Newman, PJR Phizackerly and M.-H. Town, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 552, 509 (1979). 15 Epilogue For the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul of all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematic beauty [D'Arcy Thompson,...

...plants and their flowers. Bach saw nature as the ordered creation of life where Divinity is reflected. "The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number,' wrote D'Arcy Thompson, 'and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied...

...out of natural history (Thompson 1917/1942: 2). In part, he was here expressing his conviction that "the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form...are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty" (pp. 1096-7). This conviction wasn't shared by his professional colleagues: "Even now, the zoologist...

...of his book On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson (1917/1968) wrote: For the harmony of the world is manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul...are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty, (pp. 1096-1097) Thompson went on to add that this is what the Pythagoreans taught us, Philolaus in...