The Vortex of Life: Nature's Patterns in Space and TimeBuilding on his earlier research published in The Field of Form, the author examines the influence of celestial motion on the form of plants, embryos and the heart. His statistical analysis of bud shapes, begun in the 1960s, suggests that all living forms are affected by patterns in time as well as space, with all of life and nature passing through vast cycles of change. The human embryo itself can be analysed in terms of the interaction of diametrically opposed vortices impinging on the organism. |
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Preface | 9 |
Straightness in action 838 | 28 |
Path curves in three dimensions | 45 |
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actual alignments of Moon amniotic sac angles ation become beech bottom bud transformation calculated central axis centre circle cone consider cross-ratio cross-sections curve form diagram dips dotted curve draw embryo fact field of form Figure flower buds further geometric series gesture give graph growing growth measure heart horizontal line imaginary imagine infinite invariant plane invariant points invariant tetrahedron invariant triangle leaf buds line at infinity logarithmic spirals look M₁ Mars mathematical Mean A-deviation mean deviation method move movement multiplier nature negative space organism ovary ovum parameters path curve path-curve form perfect path curve phase-shift photograph picture pivot transformation planewise plant pole positive possible primrose projective geometry realm rhythm rose Rudolf Steiner Saturn seen sepals shows similar species straight surface systole tangent thing top invariant plane tree twisted cubic uterus vortices whole X-value