Maria Sibylla Merian captured the curious behaviour of the snake Corallus enhydris, which here curls itself into tight coils and tucks its head out of sight in the shade of a jasmine plant. Detail of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 (1647–1717) was a woman ahead of her time. Born in Germany into a family of artists and engravers, she worked as an illustrator. She is best known for the paintings she made ...

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 ...