biomedicalephemera: Radiograph of Nautilus Shell Though it’s not a perfect golden spiral, the chambered nautilus shells (of both the extant and extinct species) are some of the finest natural examples of a logarithmic spiral. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,As the swift seasons roll!Leave thy low-vaulted past!Let each new temple, nobler than the last,Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,Till thou at length art free,Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!- Oliver Wendell Holmes On Growth and Form. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1945

biomedicalephemera:

Radiograph of Nautilus Shell

Though it’s not a perfect golden spiral, the chambered nautilus shells (of both the extant and extinct species) are some of the finest natural examples of a logarithmic spiral.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

On Growth and Form. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1945


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