Maria Sibylla Merian was among the first entomologists. She is most famous for illustrating the metamorphosis of the butterfly, and classified a large number of new insect species

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Great woman artist !
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly.https://t.co/G7boKXuAjo

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Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) est une célèbre naturaliste allemande. Elle produit ses premières planches à 13 ans, observe et décrit pour la première fois les insectes, leurs métamorphoses et leurs plantes hôtes dans le détail !

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Celebrate by exploring illustrations from the collection by in our "Women Illustrators in Natural History" Collection: https://t.co/esVjqFH6bi

here by Maria Sibylla Merian via : https://t.co/RTuRNzLlSk

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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

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Did you get your copy of the latest Timeliner? A brilliant story about the Sumerians, set in Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago. Mixing fact & fiction. 7+ years/KS2. Out in the webshop now! https://t.co/r77JtFxnra

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I noticed it was 's birthday today so I kinda quicky doodled his character Merian!

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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.

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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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Excited to share the latest addition to my shop: Gilgamesh and the Dream of Endiku Original Painting Epic Poem from Ancient Mesopotamia Sumerian Art History Sumeria Uruk Humbaba Mythology https://t.co/hvrdyuP63p

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Glad to hear the Savage Cimmerian is back with Marvel. My life when I was a kid was Savage Sword of Conan ⚔️ and Conan Saga magazines. Just a quick-o-destroy sketch of him.

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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.

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You can see the work of both Merian and Graff, including these watercolour paintings, in our free display about the collections of the Museum’s founder Hans Sloane in Room 90a: https://t.co/J3wyHL7uhI

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Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughter Dorothea Graff were pioneering painters and printmakers famous for their scientific illustrations. In 1699 they travelled to Surinam in South America where they made extensive notes and sketches of the colourful wildlife

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Remember what is 'Win of Pyr', and how the Sumerian fairytale 'Ali Baba and the 40 thieves' finishes; the Lands of Ur, the morning after death, the tears of the Sun, the sacred tongues of will and sacred mummy darkness; protuberatic rage gone out of the dead night's stomach.

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Doctor Jeremiah Cimmerian 'u'

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Spectacular images from 17/18C German artist/naturalist Maria Merian's pioneering scientific expedition to S America

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