
Pioneering work on bud and plant shapes, indicating there are universal laws which guide an organism's growth into predetermined patterns. When The Vortex of Life was first published in 1993, Lawrence Edwards's pioneering work on bud shapes had already...

Building 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...