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Rumor has it that 's new book on army includes an illustration from our History of Science Collection, specifically this image from Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705).

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2020-09-29

🖌️ ART ACTIVITY: Life Cycles! Maria Sibylla Merian made pictures of butterflies that were both artistic and scientific. Learn about a life cycle and create art about it!

📋 Joseph Mulder after Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), "The Metamorphoses of the Insects of Surinam," 1705.

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2020-09-23

Yoongi, Namjoon, Jimin, & Taehyung: Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate 1 from Dissertation in Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam, 1719

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2020-08-01

The subject of today's thread is Aphra Behn - a 17th century author, poet and playwright. Born in 1640, her early life is mysterious. It's possible that she travelled to Surinam, the English (and later Dutch) colony, only returning to England in her mid-twenties.

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2020-07-21

🖌 ART ACTIVITY: Drawing from nature. Pick an object, observe it carefully, and draw it precisely.

More tips and ideas: https://t.co/a09GqmMWv3

📋 Pieter Sluyter after Maria Sibylla Merian, "The Metamorphoses of the Insects of Surinam"; Pamela Crockett, "Visible Strings."

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2020-07-01

Electric/Water type Regional variants for Tympole, Palpitoad, and Seismitoad, based on electric plugs, headphones, whack-a-mole arcade machines, and Pipa pipa (Surinam toad)

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2020-06-30

In 1699, naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects: https://t.co/BFfM36jY9E. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry via

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2020-06-25

In 1699, Maria Sibylla Merion sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry from an exhibition at . theme today:

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2020-06-25

I ❤️ her works - I got this book for my daughter sometime back. Everytime I open it my jaws drop at the drama she created in those images like this “Shoreline Purslane and Suriname Toad”

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2020-06-22

The blue and white china bowl is typical of a Dutch still life of this period, while the blue-backed manakin is a native of Surinam.

Herolt was the eldest daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff, and learned to paint from them (more)...

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2020-06-10

it would not be necessary to bring wine to Surinam; rather it would be possible to bring wine from there back to Holland, for the grapes can be harvested more than once a year’.

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2020-06-09

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🎼 I simply remember (a few of) his favorite things & then I don’t feel so sad 🎶

1.Vogelgids voor Suriname, 1940
Jan Joost ter Pelkwijk (1914-42)
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2.Miriam Makeba
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3.Vlinders & klaprozen, 1889
Vincent van Gogh

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2020-06-09

It been a long time since I used this app. Ahhh meet my most loved daughter: Suriname (need to give her a human name u_u)

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2020-05-28

🦋 Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium.
Amsterdam: Voor den auteur, als ook by G. Valck,[1705].
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2020-05-06

3/3 Agneta Block was a patron of naturalist/artist Maria Sibylla Merian, who recorded this pineapple w/ exciting cockroaches in her Insects of Surinam, 1705.

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2020-04-22

Louise von Panhuys (1763-1844): Germanic botanical artist and landscape painter. She went to Surinam and created volumes of botanical specimens; mainly, she painted watercolours of plant specimens, with attention to scientific accuracy.

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2020-04-22

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Insects de Surinam, 1726

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
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2020-04-19

Johanna Herolt (1668-1723): Germanic botanical artist born into a prominent family of Science & Art. In 1691, she moved to Amsterdam, where she set up a studio painting flowers & botanical subjects. In 1711, she moved to Surinam; paintings various flora there.

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2020-04-18

This exhibit features some of our most beautifully illustrated rare books, such as Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705).

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2020-04-18

2/2 Pineapple & cockroaches, from The Insects of Suriname, 1719 edition. Brought to you by traveler, naturalist, & artist Maria Sibylla Merian.

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2020-04-02