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I keep coming across work whilst on and let’s be honest, that’s not really a problem! The Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium was published in 1705 and is still a fantastic book showing insect life cycles

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2020-01-18

A super powered Lil Homie... proudly wearing his shirt! Congrats to Renate Stüger and Sai Rodrigues on the publication of their Suriman comic.

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2019-12-23

thought Suriname Toads were cute til i found out the female toad gives birth to fully formed baby toads through a ton of tiny holes in its back

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2019-10-12

Merian's work on insects is considered a significant contribution to the field of entomology. In 1685, at the age of 52, she traveled to Suriname with her daughter (w/no male companion!) & spent 2 years studying and drawing the indigenous flora and fauna. 2/

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2019-09-24

Mixed 🇸🇷 (Suriname) + 🇲🇽 (Mexico), and created this new country called Suriico:

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2019-09-02

For the challenge, we celebrate In 1699, pioneering botanical artist traveled alone with her daughter to what's now in See her paintings: https://t.co/6SAPXOnMQs.

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2019-08-01

January 2027, Guyana conquered Suriname territory.
Suriname has been completely defeated.
176 countries remaining.

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2019-04-24

So here is plate 45 from 's copy of Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (RBR QL466.M47 1705) and I need your help, twitter:

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2019-04-11

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

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

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

Day 2: Drawing of the frog witch lady suriname and her froglings

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2018-10-03

Half time oranges any one?? Nope not us either! We are in the mood for pineapple! Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) Free to read via https://t.co/EnQNogCsH6

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2018-07-16

June 24 is and here is one of my favourite objects brought to life: 'Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium' by Maria Sibylla Merian

Credit for gif: Richard Naples via competition 2014, using source material from

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2018-06-24

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), German naturalist and scientific illustrator who left her husband and traveled to Suriname to study in an age of extreme restriction on women

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2018-02-03

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) German naturalist/scientific illustrator who left her husband and traveled to Suriname to study

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2017-07-14

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) German naturalist/scientific illustrator who left her husband and traveled to Suriname to study

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2017-05-26