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Happy I tried to combine more than one of my interests in just one tweet - chocolate & women and zoology. Here is a wonderful engraving of a cocoa plant & insects from Maria Sibylla Merian's insects of Surinam. 's copy dates from 1726.

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2019-07-07

Maria Sibylla Merian
Tulip with Grasshopper, 1657

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2019-06-29

A Life Without Bugs is no Life at all. As a single mother against the odds, Maria Sibylla Merian became one of the pioneers of a reformed, scientific understanding of the variance, abilities, aptitudes, complexities and roles of insects. https://t.co/JroFDeXuqi

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2019-06-20

Nous terminons cette journée avec Maria Sibylla Merian. Illustratrice et naturaliste du XVIIIe, elle mit son talent de dessinatrice au service des observations naturalistes très détaillées qu'elle conduisit notamment sur la métamorphose des insectes. 🐜🐛🦋

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2019-05-14

Maria Sibylla Merian is a 17th-century artist with a passion for natural history, a wonderful talent and an adventurous life.

Join us tomorrow Sat 27 Apr, 12-2pm at Rawtenstall Library to discover more about her and 3 other female artists.

All info here: https://t.co/8HjFfKP3AL

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2019-04-26

Not able to spend time outside on this Then appreciate nature's beauty in these illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian - one of the 1st to show insects w/the plants they inhabited. See more in De Europischen insecten (1730) via https://t.co/2UDXZ66bjM

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2019-04-22

Q16. Their parents? & Q17. Their siblings?
His father and mother are called Leif and Sibylla (Sibyl). He has a younger sister named Freya. Percy's family weren't necessarily bad people, but perhaps weak-willed and became too caught up in fame and prestige to take risks.

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2019-04-08

2/2 Two butterflies. Studied in Amsterdam in 1706 by Maria Sibylla Merian. It was her day.

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2019-04-03

Flowers in a Chinese vase. And some insects. By Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist, who was born on this day in 1647.

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2019-04-03

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Naturalist & Maria Sibylla Merian was in
"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."


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2019-04-02

Happy Bday Maria Sibylla Merian (born 1647)! Celebrate with "De Europischen insecten" (1730), a Dutch translation of Merian's earlier "Der Raupen", with drawn from first-hand observations of insect metamorphosis. In via : https://t.co/xm9wccrUi4

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2019-04-02

Born on this day in 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

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2019-04-02

Maria Sibylla Merian born 1647 was a self-taught naturalists and artist who created stunningly detailed illustrations of insects and plants. I was humbled to draw her portrait for the

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2019-04-02

And it was Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born naturalist, who documented Metamorphosis for the first time.
In 1799, she sailed to Suriname from Europe looking for insects - something no ladies were permitted to do back then.The results were a spectacular treasure for Science!

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2019-04-02

Spiders, ants and hummingbird on a branch of a guava - Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705. (Colored copper engraving from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLIII.)

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2019-03-30

"Erucarum ortus" (1718) is a Latin translation of Maria Sibylla Merian's 2nd work, "Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung", depicting first-hand observations of insect life cycles & their food plants. See it in via ➡️ https://t.co/iFcktbZ4vt

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2019-03-26

Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies

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2019-03-21

A closer look at the frontispiece in the 1730 Ed of Maria Sibylla Merian's work on the insects of Suriname: just to the left of the cherub's bum, I've only just noticed a miniature version of the book plus the pineapple from one of the plates growing in a pot!

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2019-03-12

Défi de : je choisis Maria Sibylla Merian, l'une des premières femmes illustratrices dans le domaine de l’histoire naturelle. https://t.co/AO6c5tYhSf

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2019-03-09