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Portrait of a Polymath---A Visual Portrait of D'Arcy Thompson by Will Maclean (2013)

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The article features Scottish artist Will Maclean and his visual interpretation of mathematician D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's desire to explain the natural world. Born in Inverness, Scotland in 1941, MacLean studied art after working as a midshipman. He used to work as a teacher at the University of Dundee. In 2007-08, Thompson's work inspired Maclean to create a series of mixed media box constructions. Information on Maclean's 2008 exhibition "Different Meridiens" is also given.

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Description On the mathematician D'arcy Wentworth Thompson.


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Juler, Edward
Oy-Marra, Elisabeth
Peter B. Logan
Elizabeth Towner
Pierre Frigon
Vandersmissen, Jan
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