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<br><big style="color: #666600; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><big><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold">FORM AND PHYLLOTAXIS</span></big></big></big></big>
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<span style="color: #000000"></span><strong style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000"><font size="+2"> </font></strong><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="color: #000000"></span><small style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"></span></small><span style="color: #000000"></span><big style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000"><small><span style="font-style: italic">It is well known that the arrangement of the leaves in plants</span><small style="font-style: italic"><strong><sup></sup></strong></small><span style="font-style: italic">may be expressed by very simple series of fractions, all of which are gradual approximations to, or the natural means between</span><strong style="font-style: italic"> 1/2 </strong><span style="font-style: italic">or </span><strong style="font-style: italic">1/3</strong><span style="font-style: italic">, which two fractions are themselves the maximum and the minimum divergence between two single successive leaves. The normal series of fractions which expresses the various combinations most frequently observed among the leaves of plants is as follows:</span><strong style="font-style: italic"> </strong><strong style="font-style: italic">1/2, 1/3, 2/5, 3/8, 5/13, 8/21, 13/34, 21/55</strong><span style="font-style: italic">, etc. Now upon comparing this arrangement of the leaves in plants with the revolutions of the members of our solar system, <span style="font-weight: bold">Peirce has discovered the most perfect identity between the fundamental laws which regulate both</span>.<span style="font-weight: bold"> </span></span><small style="font-weight: bold"><small><sup>1</sup></small></small><span style="font-style: italic"><br> <br></span></small></big><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times">(Louis Agassiz, <em style="font-weight: bold">ESSAY ON CLASSIFICATION</em>, Ed. E. Lurie, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1962:127; emphases supplied)</font></small></big><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times"> </font><span style="color: #000000"> </span></small></big>
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<div style="text-align: justify"> <span style="color: #000000"></span><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold">I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS<br> </span><span style="font-weight: bold">II. INTRODUCTION<br> </span></big></big><span style="font-weight: bold"><big><big>III. BENJAMIN PEIRCE, PHYLLOTAXIS, AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM<br> IV. THE PHYLLOTACTIC SOLAR SYSTEM<br> </big></big></span></font><big><span style="font-weight: bold"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">IV.1. PHYLLOTACTIC DIVISORS AND SYNODIC PERIODS</span><br style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> </span></big><big style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold"> IV.2. THE DUPLICATED DIVISORS<br> </span></big><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"></span>
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<big><span style="font-weight: bold"> IV.3. THE EXTENDED PHI-SERIES; INNER AND OUTER LIMITS</span></big>
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</div><big style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold"> IV.4. SOLAR SYSTEM RESONANT PHYLLOTACTIC TRIPLES<br> </span><big><span style="font-weight: bold">V. PHYLLOTAXIS AND THE PHI-SERIES</span></big></big>
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<br> <font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-weight: bold"><big><big>IV. IMPLICATIONS AND RAMIFICATIONS</big></big><br> <br></span></font>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px"><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-weight: bold"><br> </span></font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-weight: bold"><big><big>I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS</big></big><br> </span>Initially this matter is simple enough:<br> <br> Either the Solar System is phyllotactic in nature, as Benjamin Peirce intimated over one hundred and fifty years ago, or it is not.<br> <br> Whether Benjamin Peirce's conclusions should have been accepted at that time (or at least received a better airing) is a different matter altogether. Then again, this paper is not an historical commentary <span style="font-style: italic">per se,</span> nor is it concerned with the religious elements evident in Louis Agassiz' <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">Essay on Classification</span>, or similar concerns (if that is what they truly are) expressed in Benjamin Peirce's retirement speech to the membership of the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">AAAS</span> in 1853.<br> <br> In short, it is the data and the methodology applied by Benjamin Peirce that will be re-examined here and ultimately re-worked for modern consumption.<br> <br></font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-weight: bold"></span></font>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px"><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-weight: bold"><br> </span><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold">II. INTRODUCTION</span></big></big></font>
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<br> <font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-weight: bold"></span></font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">Assigned to the title heading</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-weight: bold"> <span style="font-style: italic">SPIRA SOLARIS</span></span> t</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">his January 2007 conclusion </font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">owes its origins to a number of events and issues, but t</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">he subtitle itself <span style="font-style: italic">(</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold"> Form and Phyllotaxis</span><span style="font-style: italic"> ) </span>arises from the neglected Solar System researches of American mathematician Benjamin Peirce (1809-1890). Perhaps serendipitously, his investigation and conclusions resurfaced in September 2006 as a consequence of t</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">he official elevation of the asteroid Ceres and demotion of</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"> the planet Pluto to the status of "Dwarf Planets."</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"> Essentially,</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">with Pluto thus demoted Neptune once more becomes the outermost planet, as Peirce had stipulated <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">on theoretical grounds</span> over 150 years ago. </font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">First published in 1850<small><sup>2</sup></small> and later recorded by his friend Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) in the latter's famous</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">Essay on Classification</span></font><font style="color: #cc9933" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="color: #000000"> (1857:131) Peirce had declared that <span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">"</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">there can be no planet exterior to Neptune, but there may be one interior to Mercury</span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">."</span><small> <sup>3</sup></small></span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> </span></font><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">revisiting my own attempts to come to terms with the structure of the Solar System in the first three sections of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">Spira S</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">olaris Archytas-Mirabilis</span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> the similarities between the two approaches now suggested that while I had unknowingly followed Peirce by omitting Pluto and also adding an Inter Mercurial object,</span><small style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><sup>4</sup></small><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> I had nevertheless missed the point entirely when it came to the significance of Neptune. Not so Benjamin Peirce. Nevertheless,</span> although </span><font style="color: #ffffff" face="Arial,Helvetica"><span style="color: #000000">Agassiz provided additional details in his </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: #000000">Essay on Classification</span><span style="color: #000000">concerning the latter's Solar System research including </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000">"</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: #000000">the ratios of the laws of phyllotaxis</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000">"</span><span style="color: #000000"> <small><sup>5</sup></small> in this same astronomical context, Peirce's major conclusion was cast aside despite its implications. Although not stated in these precise terms, it was nothing less than the perception that<br> <br></span></font>
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<span style="color: #000000">Apparently unable to promulgate the essence of the matter officially, Professor Peirce nevertheless labored to pass it on in a speech to the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: #000000">American Association for the Advancement of Science</span><span style="color: #000000"> on retiring from his duties as President in 1853. For this reason, it would seem that there was far more to Peirce's speech than casual readers might suspect, for at times it encompassed the past, the present and the future in a most learned and cryptic manner. Peirce asked his audience, for example, to reflect on the following statement, auxiliary questions, and what he clearly considered to be<span style="font-style: italic"> </span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-style: italic">f</span><span style="color: #000000; font-style: italic">acts</span><span style="color: #000000">:<small><sup> 6</sup></small></span>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in"><small><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif"></span></small><span style="color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">"</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Modern science has realized some of the most fanciful of the<span style="font-weight: bold"> Pythagorean</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">Platonic doctrines</span>, and thereby justified the divinity of their spiritual instincts. <span style="font-weight: bold">Is it not significant</span> of the nature of the creative intellect, the simplicity of the great laws of force? <span style="font-weight: bold">the fact that the same curious series of numbers is developed by the growing plant which assisted in marshalling the order of the planets? and that the marriage of the elements cannot be consummated except in strict accordance with the laws of definite proportion? </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif"></span><big style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> </span></big><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000">(</span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000">Address of Professor Benjamin Peirce, President of the Association of the American Association for the Year 1853, on retiring from the duties of President. 1853:67;<span style="font-weight: bold">"Printed by Order of the Association."</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><span style="color: #000000"> (</span></span><a href="http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/index.html"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">The Cornell Library Historical Mathematics Monographs</span> </a><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">(JPG) emphases supplied. Html version: <a href="../../Peirce1853.html">Peirce 1853</a> ).</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #000000">Professor Peirce's retirement speech contained further cryptic comments, <span style="font-style: italic">e.g.</span>, after mentioning: "</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #000000">the same strong, embracing, golden chain of inductive argument</span><span style="color: #000000">. (1853:7) mathematician Peirce revisited "consummation" by noting further (1853:8) that: "</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #000000">the rings of Saturn are connected with their primary by a force not less mysterious than that which holds its golden representative upon the finger of the fair betrothed.</span><span style="color: #000000"> For those unaware of Peirce's phyllotactic treatment of the Solar System parts of his speech would likely always remain cryptic, although even if his muted classical references may have been similarly misunderstood, they would be clear enough to anyone following the same route, as would be his time-honored intent to preserve and pass the matter on. <br> <br></span>
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<span style="color: #000000">Just how right (or wrong)</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #000000">was</span><span style="color: #000000"> Benjamin Peirce concerning the phyllotactic aspect ot the Solar System? He was certainly one of the leading scholars of his day, as was Louis Agassiz, though both their stars seem to have waned somewhat in their later years. As for the substance and quality of Benjamin Peirce's work - the rings of Saturn included - there is little doubt that he was an accomplished and influential scientist in his own right, as the following excerpts from his </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: #000000">Scientific Bibliography</span><span style="color: #000000"> attest:<small><sup>7</sup></small></span><span style="color: #000000"></span><small><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif"></span></small>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in; text-align: justify"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">PEIRCE, BENJAMIN</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> (b. Salem, Mass., 1809; d. Cambridge, Mass., 1880), mathematics, astronomy. </span><br style="color: #000000"> <span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Graduated from Harvard (1829; M.A., 1833), where he was a tutor ( 183133) and professor (183280). In mathematics, he amended N. Bowditch's translation of Laplace's </span> (1829-39); proved (1832) that there is no odd perfect number with fewer than four prime factors; published popular elementary textbooks; discussed possible systems of multiple algebras in <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Mécanique célesteLinear Associative Algebra</span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> ... and set forth, in </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">A System of Analytic Mechanics </span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">(1855), the principles and methods of that science as a branch of mathematical theory, developed from the idea of the "potential." In astronomy, he studied comets; worked on revision of planetary theory and was the first to compute the perturbing influence of other planets on Neptune; and worked on the mathematics of the rings of Saturn, deducing that they were fluid. From 1852 he worked with the U.S. Coast Survey on longitude determination, ... became head of the survey (1867-74) (and) superintended measurement of the arc of the thirty-ninth parallel in order to join the Atlantic and Pacific systems of triangulation. Influential in founding the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences. (</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Concise Dictionary of Scientific Bibliography</span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">, Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1981:540)</span><br style="color: #000000"> </p>
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<span style="color: #000000"></span>For my own part, I intend to show in this title essay that Benjamin Peirce's phyllotactic approach to the structure of the Solar system was essentially correct, all ramifications and consequences notwithstanding.
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<br><font style="color: #000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The full description of Benjamin Peirce's application of the Fibonacci series to the structure of the Solar System as published by Louis Agassiz is provided below; perhaps significantly, the words "Fibonacci" and "Golden Section" are noticeably absent -- such words perhaps already unacceptable to the powers that be and also a perceived threat to the <em>status quo</em>. Nevertheless, there can be no mistaking the sequence applied or the major premise, called here fittingly enough (for the moderns, at least) "the law of phyllotaxis". One may also note that Peirce had already considered the practical differences between his theoretical treatment and the Solar System itself and subsequently considered not only the position of Earth, but also discrepancies encountered for the positions of Mars, Uranus and Neptune. Initially Pierce also applied a double form of Fibonacci series but subsequently reduced the set to arrive are a situation similar to that involving the synodic difference cycle between adjacent planets.<br> That he did not examine the matter from this particular viewpoint in greater detail is the reason why this present essay exists.</font>
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<br style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #000000"></span><big style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000"><small> The phenomena of the inorganic world are all simple, when compared to those of the organic world. There is not one of the great physical agents, electricity, magnetism, heat, light, or chemical affinity, which exhibits in its sphere as complicated phenomena as the simplest organized beings; and we need not look for the highest among the latter to find them presenting the same physical phenomena as are manifested in the material world, besides those which are exclusively peculiar to them. When then organized beings include everything the material world contains and a great deal more that is peculiarly their own, how could they be produced by physical causes, and how can the physicists, acquainted with the laws of the material world and who acknowledge that these laws must have been established at the beginning, overlook that <em>à fortiori </em>the more complicated laws which regulate the organic world, of the existence of which there is no trace for a long period upon the surface of the earth, must have been established later and successively at the time of the creation of the successive types of animals and plants?</small></big>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><span style="color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><small>It appears from this table that two intervals usually elapse between two successive planets, so that the normal order of actual fractions</small></span><small><strong style="color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">, 1/2, 1/3, 2/5, 3/8, 5/13</strong><span style="color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">, etc., or the fractions by the short way in phyllotaxis, from which, however, the Earth is excluded, while it forms a member of the series by the long way. The explanation of this, suggested by Peirce, is that although the tendency to set off a planet is not sufficient at the end of a single interval, it becomes so strong near the end of the second interval that the planet is found exterior to the limit of this second interval. Thus, Uranus is rather too far from the Sun relatively to Neptune, Saturn relatively to Uranus, and Jupiter relatively to Saturn; and the planets thus formed engross too large a proportionate share of material, and this is especially the case with Jupiter. Hence, when we come to the Asteroids, the disposition is so strong at the end of a single interval, that the outer Asteroid is but just within this interval, and the whole material of the Asteroids is dispersed in separate masses over a wide space, instead of being concentrated into a single planet. A consequence of this dispersion of the forming agents is that a small proportionate material is absorbed into the Asteroids. Hence, Mars is ready for formation so far exterior to its true place, that when the next interval elapses the residual force becomes strong enough to form the Earth, after which the normal law is resumed without any further disturbance. Under this law there can be no planet exterior to Neptune, but there may be one interior to Mercury. </span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> Let us now look back upon some of the leading features alluded to before, omitting the simpler relations of organized beings to the world around, or those of individuals to individuals, to consider only the different parallel series we have been comparing when showing that in their respective great types the phenomena of animal life correspond to one another, whether we compare their rank as determined by structural complication with the phases of their growth, or with their succession in past geological ages; whether we compare this succession with their embryonic growth, or all these different relations with each other and with the geographical distribution of animals upon earth. The same series everywhere! These facts are true of all the great divisions of the animal kingdom, so far as we have pursued the investigation; and though, for want of materials, the train of evidence is incomplete in some instances, yet we have proof enough for the establishment of this law of a universal correspondence in all the leading features which binds all organized beings of all times into one great system, intellectually and intelligibly linked together, even where some links of the chain are missing. It requires considerable familiarity with the subject even to keep in mind the evidence, for, though yet imperfectly understood, it is the most brilliant result of the combined intellectual efforts of hundreds of investigators during half a century. The connection, however, between the facts, it is easily seen, is only intellectual; and implies therefore the agency of Intellect as its first cause.</span></small> </big><small><sup style="color: #000000; font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><small><small>150</small></small></sup></small><big style="color: #000000"><small><strong style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><sup><br> </sup></strong><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> And if the power of thinking connectedly is the privilege of cultivated minds only; if the power of combining different thoughts and of drawing from them new thoughts is a still rarer privilege of a few superior minds; if the ability to trace simultaneously several trains of thought is such an extraordinary gift, that the few cases in which evidence of this kind has been presented have become a [p.131] matter of historical record (Caesar dictating several letters at the time), though they exhibit only the capacity of passing rapidly, in quick succession, from one topic to another, while keeping the connecting thread of several parallel thoughts: if all this is only possible for the highest intellectual powers, shall we by any false argumentation allow ourselves to deny the intervention of a Supreme Intellect in calling into existence combinations in nature, by the side of which all human conceptions are child's play? </span><br style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> <span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> If I have succeeded, even very imperfectly, in showing that the various relations observed between animals and the physical world, as well as between themselves, exhibit thought, it follows that the whole has an Intelligent Author; and it may not be out of place to attempt to point out, as far as possible, the difference there may be between Divine thinking and human thought. Taking nature as exhibiting thought for my guide, it appears to me that while human thought is consecutive, Divine thought is simultaneous, embracing at the same time and forever, in the past, the present, and the future, the most diversified relations among hundreds of thousands of organized beings, each of which may present complications again, which, to study and understand even imperfectly, as for instance, Man himself, Mankind has already spent thousands of years. And yet, all this has been done by one Mind, must be the work of one Mind only, of Him before whom Man can only bow in grateful acknowledgment of the prerogatives he is allowed to enjoy in this world, not to speak of the promises of a future life.</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> <span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> I have intentionally dismissed many points in my argument with mere questions, in order not to extend unduly a discussion which is after all only accessory to the plan of my work. I have felt justified in doing so because, from the point of view under which my subject is treated, those questions find a natural solution which must present itself to every reader. We know what the intellect of Man may originate, we know its creative power, its power of combination, of foresight, of analysis, of concentration; we are, therefore, prepared to recognize a similar action emanating from a Supreme Intelligence to a boundless extent. We need therefore not even attempt to show that such an Intellect may have originated all the Universe contains; it is enough to demonstrate that the constitution of the physical world and, more particularly, the organization of living beings in their connection with the physical world, prove in general the existence of a Supreme Being as the Author of all things. The task of science is rather to investigate what has been done, to inquire if possible how it has been done, than to ask what is possible for the Deity, as we can know that only by what actually exists. To attack such a position, those who would deny the intervention in nature of a creative mind must show that the cause to which they refer the origin of finite beings is by its nature a possible cause, which cannot be denied of a being endowed with the attributes we recognize in God. Our task is therefore completed as soon as we have proved His existence. It would nevertheless be highly desirable that every naturalist who has arrived at similar conclusions should go over the subject anew from his point of view and with particular reference to the special field of his investigations; for so only can the whole evidence be brought out. I foresee already that some of the most striking illustrations may be drawn from the morphology of the vegetable kingdom, especially from the characteristic succession and systematical combination of different kinds of leaves in the formation of the foliage and the flowers of so many plants, all of which end their development by the production of an endless variety of fruits. The inorganic world, "considered in the same light, would not fail to exhibit also unexpected evidence of thought, in the character of the laws regulating the chemical combinations, the action of physical forces, the universal attraction, etc., etc. Even the history of human culture ought to be investigated from this point of view. But I must leave it to abler hands to discuss such topics.</span></small> </big></font></p>
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<><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big style="color: #000000"> <small>31st. The combination in time and space of all these thoughtful conceptions exhibits not only thought, it shows also premeditation, power, wisdom, greatness, prescience, omniscience, providence. In one word, all these facts in their natural connection proclaim aloud the One God, whom man may know, adore, and love; and Natural History must in good time become the analysis of the thoughts of the Creator of the Universe, as manifested in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, as well as in the inorganic world.</small></big></font>
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<br> <><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big style="color: #000000"><small> It may appear strange that I should have included the preceding disquisition under the title of an "Essay on Classification." Yet it has been done deliberately. In the beginning of this chapter I have already stated that Classification seems to me to rest upon too narrow a foundation when it is chiefly based upon structure. Animals are linked together as closely by their mode of development, by their relative standing in their respective classes, by the order in which they have made their appearance upon earth, by their geographical distribution, and generally by their connection with the world in which they live, as by their anatomy. All these relations should therefore be fully expressed in a natural classification; and though structure furnishes the most direct indication of some of these relations, always appreciable under every circumstance, other considerations should not be neglected which may complete our insight into the general plan of creation. </small></big></font><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times">(Louis Agassiz, <em>ESSAY ON CLASSIFICATION</em>, Ed. E. Lurie, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1962:127-128)<br> <br></font></small></big><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times"> </font><span style="color: #000000"> </span></small></big>
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It is also clear from these lower products that for integer values expressed in years, rounding alternates between each pairing (i.e., 0.72360 rounded up = </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">1</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">, 1.1708 rounded down = </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">1</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">, 1.8944 rounded up = </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">2</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">, 3.065 rounded down = </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">3</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">, etc., producing yet again the Fibonacci Series from the initial commencement point. Lastly, the period below </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Inner 5 </span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">would be </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Phi </span><small style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><sup>-14 </sup></small><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">with the product obtained from central value of the previous pairing (</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">233</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">) which in turn rounds down to </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">zero</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">. 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<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">But this is the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Phi-Series planetary framework</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> which supplies the underlying, rigid Pheidian Form, but not necessarily the phyllotactic essence of the more complex, dynamic Solar System itself. For this we need to examine the superior planet resonances in real-time in terms of the Fibonacci Series and like multiples utilising (as before in Part III) the methods of Bretagnon and Simon (1986) </span><small style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><sup>9</sup></small><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> adapted to </span><a style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif" href="../../time1.html">time-series analysis</a><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">:</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">As for the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Phi-Series</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">planetary framework</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> itself, </span><big style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><small>it should be noted that while the </small></big><font style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">importance of the</font><font style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif" face="Times New Roman,Times"> reciprocals of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">phi</span> and its <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">square </span><span style="font-style: italic"></span>(<span style="font-weight: bold">0.618033989</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">0.381966011</span>)<span style="font-weight: bold"> </span></font><font style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif" face="Times New Roman,Times">needs no introduction to those familiar with phyllotaxis </font><font style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif" face="Times New Roman,Times">(especially the latter with respect to the "ideal angle") both numbers occur with surprising frequency in the<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold"> Phi-Series</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">planetary framework</span>. As indeed does the primary constant of </font><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">linearity,</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Phi squared</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> (</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">2.618033898</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">) determined in </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Part II </span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">and applied in </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Part III </span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">and elsewhere -- the latter with respect to the the inverse velocity (</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">V</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">i) of the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Jupiter-Saturn</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> synodic (or lap) cycle</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">, with its reciprocal providing the relative velocity </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Vr</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">, which as it turns out, is also the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Mercury-Venus</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> synodic period(</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">T</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">), and additionally, the mean distance </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">(R</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">) of</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Mercury</span><span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">.</span>
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<br> <font face="Times New Roman,Times">Plants, such as sunflowers, grow by laying down leaves or stalks on an approximately planar surface. The stalks are placed successively around the periphery of the surface. Other plants such as pineapples or pinecones lay down their stalks on the surface of a distorted cylinder. Each stalk is displaced from the preceding stalk by a constant angle as measured from the base of the plant, coupled with a radial motion either inward or outward from the center for the case of the sunflower [see Figure 3.21 (b)] or up a spiral ramp as on the surface of the pineapple. The angular displacement is called the <em>divergence angle</em> and is related to the golden mean. The radial or vertical motion is measured by the pitch <strong><em>h</em></strong>. The dynamics of plant growth can be described by and <strong><em>h</em></strong>; we will explore this further in Section 6.9 [Coxeter, 1953].</font>
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<br> <strong><em><font face="Times New Roman,Times">Each stalk lies on two nearly orthogonally intersecting logarithmic spirals, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise. The numbers of counterclockwise and clockwise spirals on the surface of the plants are generally successive numbers from the F series, but for some species of plants they are successive numbers from other Fibonacci series such as the Lucas series. These successive numbers are called the phyllotaxis numbers of the plant</font></em></strong><font face="Times New Roman,Times">. For example, <strong><em>there are 55 clockwise and 89 counterclockwise spirals lying on the surface of the sunflower; thus sunflowers are said to have 55, 89 phyllotaxis. On the other hand, pineapples are examples of 5, 8 phyllotaxis (although, since 13 counterclockwise spirals are also evident on the surface of a pineapple, it is sometimes referred to as 5, 8, 13 phyllotaxis</em></strong>). We will analyze the surface structure of the pineapple in greater detail in Section 6.9.</font>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman,Times">3.7.2 <strong><em>Nature responds to a physical constraint </em></strong>After more than 100 years of study, just what causes plants to grow in accord with the dictates of Fibonacci series and the golden mean remains a mystery. However, recent studies suggest some promising hypotheses as to why such patterns occur [Jean, 1984], [Marzec and Kappraff, 1983], [Erickson, 1983].</font> <br> <font face="Times New Roman,Times">A model of plant growth developed by Alan Turing states that the elaborate patterns observed on the surface of plants are the consequence of a simple growth principle, namely, that new growth occurs in places "where there is the most room," and some kind of as-yet undiscovered growth hormone orchestrates this process. However, Roger Jean suggests that a phenomenological explanation based on diffusion is not necessary to explain phyllotaxis. Rather, the particular geometry observed in plants may be the result of minimizing an <em>entropy function</em> such as he introduces in his paper [1990].</font> <br> <font face="Times New Roman,Times">Actual measurements and theoretical considerations indicate that both Turing's diffusion model and Jean's entropy model are best satisfied when successive stalks are laid down at regular intervals of 2Pi /Phi<small><sup> 2</sup></small> radians, or<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold"> 137.5 degrees about a growth cente</span><strong><em>r</em></strong>, as Figure 3.22 illustrates for a celery plant. The centers of gravity of several stalks conform to this principle. One clockwise and one counterclockwise logarithmic spiral wind through the stalks giving an example of 1,1 phyllotaxis.</font> <br> <font face="Times New Roman,Times">The points representing the centers of gravity are projected onto the circumference of a circle in Figure 3.23, and points corresponding to the sequence of successive iterations of the divergence angle, 2Pi <em>n</em>/Phi<small><sup> 2</sup></small>, are shown for values of <em>n</em> from 1 to 10 placed in 10 equal sectors of the circle. Notice how the corresponding stalks are placed so that only one stalk occurs in each sector. This is a consequence of the following spacing theorem that is used by computer scientists for efficient parsing schemes [Knuth, 1980].</font> </p>
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</blockquote><font face="Times New Roman,Times">Here clock arithmetic based on the unit interval, or mod 1 as mathematicians refer to it, is used, as shown in Figure 3.24, in place of the interval mod 2pi around the plant stem. It turns out that segments of various lengths are created and destroyed in a first-in-first-out manner. Of course, some irrational numbers are better than others at spacing intervals evenly. For example, an irrational that is near 0 or I will start out with many small intervals and one large one. Marzec and Kappraff [1983] have shown that the two numbers 1/Phi and 1/Phi<small><sup>2</sup></small> lead to the "most uniformly distributed" sequence among all numbers between Phi and 1. These numbers section the largest interval into the golden mean ratio,Phi :l, much as the blue series breaks the intervals of the red series in the golden ratio.</font>
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<br> <strong><em><font face="Times New Roman,Times">Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture (see Section 1.1). All modules (stalks) are isotropic (identical) and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean. As the plant responds to the unpredictable elements of wind, rain, etc., enough variation is built into the patterns to make the outward appearance aesthetically appealing (nonmonotonous). This may also explain why Le Corbusier was inspired by plant growth to recreate some of its aspects as part of the Modulor system.</font></em></strong><font face="Times New Roman,Times">(Jay Kappraff, Chapter </font><em>3.7. The<strong> </strong>Golden Mean and Patterns of Plant Growth</em>, <font face="Times New Roman,Times"><em style="font-weight: bold">CONNECTIONS : The Geometric Bridge between Art and Science</em><span style="font-weight: bold">,</span> McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1991:89-96, bold emphases supplied.) </font>For more on this topic see also Dr. R. Knott's extensive treatment <a href="http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html">The Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section</a>, the latter's <a href="http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html#links">related links</a> and the <a href="http://math.smith.edu/%7Ephyllo/">The Phyllotaxis Home Page of Smith University)</a>
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</div><span style="color: #cc9933"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-weight: bold"></span></span></span><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">The implications and ramifications of a phyllotactic Solar System generate in turn complex questions. Some implications we may not wish to address; others we may prefer to ignore (if not deny), though I suggest that we can ill-afford to do so. For i</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">f the Solar System is indeed phyllotactic, then it follows that there are wider implications to consider concerning the nature of not only "Life" as we understand it, but the nature of Humankind, our current behavioral traits and our role in the general scheme of things, assuming that we have one.<br> <br> We are at present, it seems, far too pleased with ourselves, and for far too little reason.<br> <br> But from a wider and larger "organic" perspective we surely need to consider where we ourselves are ultimately headed. And we also need to ask ourselves whether humankind exists in benign and symbiotic relationships with other living organisms (both near and far), or whether our behavior more resembles that of a parasitic infestation, even perhaps to the point of destroying our environment and ourselves. A harsh assessment? Perhaps so, but it is not un-called for in light of our virtually unchecked population growth, our ceaseless depredation of the environment and our worsening cycles of violence. So how indeed do we measure up from this wider and more complex perspective, and what might this augur for future expansion beyond planet Earth? Perhaps more pertinently still, when we ask the perennial question: "Are we Alone?" we might also be wise to ask ourselves </font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">whether </font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">we are always likely to remain so in view of our unsavoury past, troublesome present, and far from certain future. <br> <br></font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">Returning to the researches of Benjamin Peirce, i</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">n retrospect it is hard to say how far his lines of inquiry might have been extended, or what might ultimately have resulted, but it must surely have been a far more useful endeavor than the circular, simplistic and <em>ad hoc</em> diversions introduced and perpetuated by "Bode's Law." H</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">ow could something so momentous and far-reaching have been so easily driven into obscurity? According to the modern editor of Agassiz' <em style="font-weight: bold">Essay on Classification</em>, (E. Lurie) it was partly the work of Asa Gray and Chauncey Wright, as explained in the following footnote (the latter's No.149):</font>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman,Times">Agassiz tried to interest Americans in this concept, an idea typical of German speculative biology and one that he had been much impressed with since his student days at the University of Munich. See Asa Gray, "On the Composition of the Plant by Phytons, and Some Applications of Phyllotaxis," <em>Proceedings, AAAS,</em> II (<strong>1850</strong>), 438-444, and Benjamin Peirce, "Mathematical Investigations of the Fractions Which Occur in Phyllotaxis," in <strong><em>ibid</em></strong>., 444-447. Gray was never entirely convinced of the validity of this ideal conception. He subsequently encouraged Chauncey Wright to examine the problem of leaf arrangement, with the result that such facts were shown to be understandable in terms of the principle of natural selection.</font> </p>
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</div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">but it is still incredible that it should have been driven down so swiftly, except, perhaps that it was undoubtedly heliocentric as well as a major departure from the views perpetuated by organized religion. Thus it may have come too late, a century after Linneaus' classifications, a little less with respect to Cook's voyages, and half a century or more of continued activity that was simply too much for those who wished to maintain the<em> status qu</em>o. Not that this was the only field affected where the Golden Section was concerned; it was also difficult for the likes of Canon Mosely and later others around the turn of the last century engaged in the analysis of spiral forms (especially applied to shells) as outlined in the closing </font>excerpt from <a href="../../llight.html">The Matter of lost Light:</a>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in"><small><big style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">".. <span style="font-style: italic"></span> There is a great deal more, of course, that could be said concerning the details and the methodology applied to the fitting of spirals forms to shells and many other natural applications provided in Sir d'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's voluminous<em> <span style="font-weight: bold">On Growth and Form</span></em>.<small><small><sup>12</sup></small></small> And indeed in other works that for a brief time seem to have flourished around the beginning of the last century. The above is included here because it epitomizes the darker, stumbling side of human progress. And also the realization that when Thomas Taylor (Introduction to<span style="font-weight: bold"></span><em style="font-weight: bold">Life and Theology of Orpheus</em>) speaks of social decline, loss of knowledge in ancient times and the efforts to preserve it by those who, <em>"though they lived in a base age"</em> nevertheless<em>"</em><em>happily fathomed the depth of their great master's works, luminously and copiously developed their recondite meaning, and benevolently communicated it in their writings for the general good,"</em> that sadly, such times are still upon us. Thus, just as Sir Theodore Andrea Cook,<small><small><sup>13</sup></small></small>who in the <em style="font-weight: bold">Curves of Life</em> (1914) was unable to define the "well known logarithmic spiral" equated in 1881 with the chemical elements (see the previous section:<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic"> Spira Solaris and the Three-fold number</span>), neither Canon Mosely<small><sup><small>14</small> </sup></small>nor Thompson were able write openly about the either the Golden Ratio or the Pheidian planorbidae. Nor unto the present day, it seems have others, for if not a forbidden subject <em>per se</em>, it long seems to have been a poor career choice, so to speak. Moreover, even after Louis Agassiz introduced Benjamin Peirce's phyllotaxic approach to structure of the Solar System in his <em style="font-weight: bold">Essay on Classification</em> (1857) the matter was swiftly dispatched and rarely referred to again. A possibly momentous shift in awareness, shunted aside with greatest of ease, as the editor of<em> Essay on Classification</em>, (E. Lurie)<small><small><sup>15</sup></small></small> explained in the short loaded footnote<small><small><sup> </sup></small></small>discussed in the previous section. Nor it would seem, were the works of Arthur Harry Church<small><small><sup>16</sup></small></small> (<em style="font-weight: bold">On the Relation of Phyllotaxis to Mechanical Law</em>, 1904) or Samuel Colman<sup><small><small>17-18</small></small> </sup>(<em style="font-weight: bold">Nature's Harmonic Unity</em><span style="font-weight: bold">,</span> 1911)</big><small style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><sup> </sup></small><big style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">allowed to take root. Nor again were the lines of inquiry laid out in Jay Hambidge's<small><small><sup>19</sup></small></small> <em style="font-weight: bold">Dynamic Symmetry</em> (1920) permitted to have much on effect on the <em>status quo</em> either, not to mention Sir Theodore Andrea Cook's<small><small><sup> </sup></small></small><em style="font-weight: bold">Curves of Life</em> (1914) and the general the thrust of the many papers published during the previous century and on into the present.</big></small><span style="color: #000000"></span><small><big><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><small><small><sup>20-26</sup></small></small></span></big></small><br> <small><big style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><font style="color: #000000"> </font><font style="color: #000000">Where does this obfuscation and stagnation leaves us now? Wondering perhaps where we might be today if the implications of the phyllotactic side of the matter introduced in 1850 by Benjamin Pierce had at least been allowed to filter into the mainstream of knowledge with its wider, all-inclusive perspective concerning "life" as we currently understand it. The realization, perhaps, that we may indeed belong to something larger than ourselves, and that as an integral, living part of the Solar System rather than an isolated destructive apex, that we should conduct ourselves with more care and consideration towards all forms of life...."</font></big></small></p><small><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif"></span></small><small><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif"></span></small><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">As indeed do many so-called "primitive" cultures. At the end of a documentary entitled </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif">The Great Barrier Reef</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"> (Science Museum of Minnesota, 2001) an Australian aboriginal commentary states that:</span><small style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><big><small><small><sup>27</sup></small></small></big></small><small><big><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"></span></big></small>
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<em>Native wisdom tends to assign human beings enormous responsibility for sustaining harmonious relations within the whole natural world rather than granting them unbridled license to follow personal or economic whim ... Native wisdom sees spirit, however one defines that term, as dispersed throughout the cosmos or embodied in an inclusive, cosmos- sanctifying divine being. Spirit is not concentrated in a single, monotheistic Supreme Being ... Native spiritual and ecological knowledge has intrinsic value and worth, regardless of its resonances with or "confirmation" by modern Western scientific values..</em><strong><em> </em></strong>(Peter Knudtson and David Suzuki<em>,</em> <strong><em>Wisdom of the Elders,</em></strong> 1992)
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</div><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">But however one looks at it, this matter seems to extend far, far back in time, and I say this not at the beginning of my researches, nor near the middle, but towards the very end. Indeed, it is entirely possible that this complex subject lies at the heart of many ancient writings, especially those of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists. It is also likely that it is inherent in the teachings of the Pythagoreans and in <span style="font-style: italic">The Chaldean Oracles</span> so venerated by Proclus. And not least of all, this concept of a natural living entity may also be obscurely addressed in alchemical works received from the Arab World and thus preserved for us throughout the Darkness and the Middle Ages. </font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">There is little doubt, for example, how much lost knowledge was regained by the medieval French scholar Nicole Oresme (1323-1382 CE) from his analyses and exposition of the work of Averroes (Ibn Rushdie, ca. 1128 CE) even if the latter work</font><small><big><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><small><small><sup>29</sup></small></small></span></big></small><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"> remains under-appreciated to the present day, and there are undoubtedly other Arab sources likely to be informative in their original state.</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"> This is not to suggest that the Western World has not already acknowledged the preservation and furtherance of ancient learning from this source, but there long seems to have been a grudging (if not racist) element to it that continues to impede both our growth and our development. <br> <br></font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">Here we surely need to come of age, and quickly.<br> <br> Needless to say, t</font><font style="color: #000000" face="Arial,Helvetica">here is much work to be done and many fences to be mended, but with a distinct focus and increased cooperation between Western and Arab scholars perhaps we may yet still build a few solid bridges towards a better and a more tolerant world.</font><small> <br> </small><small><big><span style="color: #000000"><br> </span></big></small>
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<li><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Agassiz, Louis. </span><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times"><em>ESSAY ON CLASSIFICATION</em>, Ed. E. Lurie, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1962:131.</font></small></big></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Peirce, Benjamin.</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">"Mathematical Investigations of the Fractions Which Occur in Phyllotaxis," </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><em>Proceedings, AAAS,</em> II 1850:444-447.</font></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Agassiz, Louis. </span><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times"><em>ESSAY ON CLASSIFICATION</em>, Ed. E. Lurie, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1962:127.</font></small></big></li>
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<li><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times">Called here IMO from <span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> </span></font></small></big><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Leverrier, M, "The Intra-Mercurial Planet Question," </span><em style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Nature 14</em><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"> (1876) 533. [Anon.]</span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Agassiz, Louis. </span><em style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">ESSAY ON CLASSIFICATION</em><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">, Ed. E. Lurie, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1962:127.</span></li>
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<li><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times">Peirce, Benjamin.<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold"> </span></font></small></big><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000"><span style="font-style: italic">Address of Professor Benjamin Peirce, President of the American Association for the Year 1853, on retiring from the duties of President.</span> <span style="font-style: italic">AAAS</span>, 1853:67. Source (JPG): <a href="http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/index.html">The</a></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"><a href="http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/index.html"> Cornell Library Historical Mathematics Monographs</a>. [ html version: <a href="../../Peirce1853.html" title="">Peirce1853</a> ]<br> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif"></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Concise Dictionary of Scientific Bibliography</span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">, Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1981:540.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Agassiz, Louis. </span><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big style="color: #000000"><small> </small></big> </font><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times">(Louis Agassiz, <em>ESSAY ON CLASSIFICATION</em>, Ed. E. Lurie, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1962:127-128. <br> </font></small></big></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Bretagnon, P and Jean-Louis Simon, </span><em style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">Planetary Programs and Tables from -4000 to +2800</em><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif">, Willman-Bell, Inc. Richmond, 1986.</span></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Harris, John N. </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> "<a href="../../sbb7a.html">Projectiles, Parabolas, and Velocity Expansions of the Laws of Planetary Motion</a> " <em>JRASC</em>, Vol 83, No. 3, June 1989:207-218.</font></li>
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<li><big><small><font style="color: #000000" face="Times New Roman,Times">Kappraff, Jay. </font></small></big><font face="Times New Roman,Times"><em>CONNECTIONS : The Geometric Bridge between Art and Science</em><span style="font-weight: bold">,</span> McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1991:89-96.</font></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thomson, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth. <em>On Growth and Form</em>, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1942; Dover Books, Minneola 1992.</font></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Cook, Sir Theodore Andrea.<em style="font-weight: bold"> </em><em>The Curves of Life</em>, Dover, New York 1978; republication of the London (1914) edition.</font></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Mosely, Rev. H. "On the geometrical forms of turbinated and discoid shells,"<em> Phil. trans</em>. Pt. 1. 1838:351-370.</font></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Church, Arthur Harry. <em>On The Relation of Phyllotaxis to Mechanical Law,</em> </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Williams and Norgate,<em> </em>London 1904; also: <a href="http://www.sacredscience.com/">http://www.sacredscience.com</a> (cat #154).</font></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Colman, Samuel. <em>Nature's Harmonic Unity,</em> Benjamin Blom, New York 1971. Also:<br> </font></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">It is necessary to acknowledge the many positive strides made during the last 25 years, especially Roger V. Jean's <span style="font-style: italic">Phyllotaxis: A systemic study in plant morphogenesis</span> (1994) which by virtue of its scale and scope invokes the same admiration reserved for Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">On Growth and Form</span> (1917) and similar major works.<br> </font></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">__________ </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <span style="font-style: italic">Mathematical Approach to Pattern and Form in Plant Growth</span>. Wiley, New York (1984).</font></li>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Kappraff, Jay. "The Spiral in Nature, Myth, and Mathematics" in <span style="font-style: italic"> Spiral Symmetry, </span>Eds. István Hargittai and Clifford A. Pickover, World Scientific, Singapore, 1992.</font></li>
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