The chemical basis of morphogenesis

by Alan Mathison Turing

$25,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Society, 1952 . First edition of the rare true offprint without price to front wrapper , of Turing’s last major published work, which was “in every respect ahead of its time” Copeland, p. 510 . Taking his cue from the zoologist D’Arcy Thompson, who held that the forms of living things are to be explained in terms of the operation of physical forces and

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