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Glorious Title Page of a Wonderful Book!
Maria Sibylla Merian, Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung. 1683. UB Erlangen-Nürnberg
A rare black #butterfly from Central America has been named in honor of Maria Sibylla Merian, a 17th-century naturalist and illustrator who was the first to accurately depict insect metamorphosis.
Full story: https://t.co/NYPJPpWOt7
Way back in 1699 German naturalist Maria Merian, age 52, sailed to South America, to study insects and other wildlife for two years (as you do). Here is some of what she saw https://t.co/Y8CjGo8LMu
A sneak peak inside our beautiful new YA book on Maria Sibylla Merian, a seventeenth-century scientist and artist! It publishes officially next week but you can get a copy from our store now... https://t.co/cS81MmsMaf
The Great Flood may not be a myth. The flood appears in ancient Sumerian, in the Hindu Matsya Purana, in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, in the Bible & with ancient Greeks w/ Zeus' flooding of the world in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Scientists have found evidence in the Black Sea.
Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th century naturalist & science illustrator, & first person to illustrate entire life cycles insects. She discovered facts about plants/insects not previously known. "Her passion for insects changed science" https://t.co/6Os2zXpqmc https://t.co/4yIbybFlFc
@BioDivLibrary @museumsvictoria @CrossrefOrg @DOI_Foundation I do think old books are beautiful in their own right, but it's much easier to make audiences gasp with wonder when your slides are filled with images from/by Seba, Audubon, Merian, Gould, Scott, Shaw, Curtis, Bartholomew, Becker, etc. Sigh.
Johanna Helena Herolt, daughter of the famed #MariaSibyllaMerian, was a gifted botanical artist in her own right #MuseumWeek #womenMW
I am as black as suns and as dark as stars, my Plath is veiled by the brightest night, I am dusk, I am cimmerian, acheronian, Cassiopeia
#FlashbackFriday #Frog #Metamorphosis
Merian, 1726, PL 71, Frog Metamorphic Stages
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Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, born #OnThisDay 1647
New gouache illustration, Gary the Cimmerian, for the Foe Gallery Gargamaniacal Show; http://t.co/3k4bvGQFgb