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

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A 1915 coordinate transformation grid by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, showing the deformation of a rectangle into a trapezoid.

strong and uniform flexure in the downward direction (cf. Fig. 358, p. 731). In the case of the rabbit the configuration of the individual bones does not conform quite so well to the general transformation

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