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Branching Beyond Leonardo: The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory
Leonardo da Vinci, Creative Commons https://medium.com/the-istanbul-chronicle/how-do-trees-grow-42489c244be2 Branching Beyond Leonardo: The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Y ears ago, I traveled to Amboise, to the Château of Clos Lucé in France’s Loire Valley, where Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance polymath artist, architect, mathematician, biologist, physicist, and aeronaut,...
Y ears ago, I traveled to Amboise, to the Château of Clos Lucé in France’s Loire Valley, where Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance polymath artist, architect, mathematician, biologist, physicist, and aeronaut, spent his final years. Geoffrey West, in his book Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, marvels at Da Vinci’s remarkable insight into nature’s branching systems. But the modern understanding, advanced by physicist Sergey Grigoriev and his team at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, proposes that tree branching is governed by more complex factors, including mechanical stability and hydraulic efficiency.
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