Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to Now by Stéphane Douady, 2024

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them.

Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery "if you wish to save me from a miserable death."

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