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CHAPTER XVII ON THE THEORY OF TRANSFORMATIONS, OR THE COMPARISON OF RELATED FORMS

they are at first sight, will be found easy to bring under the conception of a simple and homogeneous transformation, such as would result from the application of some not very complicated stress. For instance, the corôÙreôÙsponôÙding

An anatomical drawing of a skull, overlaid with a square grid to illustrate geometric transformation in D'Arcy Thompson's work.
A lateral view of an herbivore skull transformed by a coordinate grid, illustrating D'Arcy Thompson's theory of growth.

co-ordinates of Aceratherium tridactylum, as shown in Fig. 395, indicate that the essential difference between this

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