Wrote a book called On Growth and Form, published in 1917 - [Thompson 2017-08-04 - On Growth and Form](zotero://select/items/1_6FJKWIU5) Sir Peter Medawar, father of organ transplants, called it the "finest work of literature in all the annals of science that have been recorded in the English tongue." It influenced thinkers such as Alan Turning, Julian Huxley, and Jackson Pollock. One of the last Renaissance men. He said: "I know that in the study of material things, number, order and position are the threefold clue to exact knowledge; they these three, in the mathematician's hands, furnish the outlines for a sketch of the Universe." --- Source: [[Reference Notes/Scale]]