It was silkworms that first captured 13–year–old Maria Sibylla Merian’s attention. She would later graduate to a wider set of creatures, watching caterpillars, pupae, butterflies, and moths ...

Florencia Campetella, doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on the 17th century artist, naturalist, entomologist and proto-ecologist Sibylla Maria Merian, the first to ...

During the 17th century, when it was generally believed that insects spontaneously generated from dirt, old wool, and rotten meat, Maria Sibylla Merian found them fascinating. Her work as a ...

Maria Sibylla Merian’s work fought superstition and societal norms. Maris Fessenden - Former correspondent. September 14, 2015. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

Maria Sibylla Merian was accused of exploiting native knowledge of enslaved people without credit for her 1705 book Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. Search. Digital Editions.

Today's Google doodle commemorates Maria Sibylla Merian – entomologist, botanical illustrator, explorer and pioneering female scientist ...

Her daughter, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), grew up to be a pioneering entomologist and a botanical artist of great distinction. In a series of illustrated books she not only expanded existing ...

Maria Merian was born in 1647. At the time of her birth, Shakespeare had been dead for 30 years; Galileo had only just stood trial for arguing that the Earth moved around the Sun.

Maria Sibylla Merian, artist, scientific illustrator and explorer, set sail for south America in 1699 with her daughter to study and paint more unusual species. But as well as making a significant ...

The incredible story of the 17th Century artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, told using animation based on her own illustrations.

Maria Merian was born in 1647. At the time of her birth, Shakespeare had been dead for 30 years; Galileo had only just stood trial for arguing that the Earth moved around the Sun. And yet, here in ...