Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 164713 January 1717) was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family.Merian received her artistic training from her stepfather, Jacob Marrel, a student of the still life painter Georg Flegel. Merian published her first book of natural illustrations in 1675. She had started to collect insects as an adolescent. At age 13, she raised silkworms. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of a two-volume series on caterpillars; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. Merian documented evidence on the process of metamorphosis and the plant hosts of 186 European insect species. Along with the illustrations Merian included descriptions of their life cycles.
In 1699, Merian travelled to Dutch Guiana to study and record the tropical insects native to the region. In 1705, she published ''Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium''. Merian's ''Metamorphosis'' has been credited with influencing a range of naturalist illustrators. Because of her careful observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly, Merian is considered by David Attenborough to be among the more significant contributors to the field of entomology. She discovered many new facts about insect life through her studies. Until her careful, detailed work, it had been thought that insects were "born of mud" by spontaneous generation. Her pioneering research in illustrating and describing the various stages of development, from egg to larva to pupa and finally to adult, dispelled the notion of spontaneous generation and established the idea that insects undergo distinct and predictable life cycles. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Rangsdorf : Basilisken-Presse, 2020
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1999
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Tot Amsterdam : Voor den auteur, woonende in de Kerk-straat, tussen de Leydse en Spiegel-straat, over de Vergulde Arent, alwaar de zelve ook gedrukt en afgezet te bekoomen zyn : Als ook by Gerard Valck, op den Dam in de waakende Hond, 1705
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
[Berlin] Herbig 1966
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Hong Kong ; Los Angeles : Taschen America Llc, 2009
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1999
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The wondrous transformation of caterpillars : fifty engravings selected from Erucarum ortus (1718) /
by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
London : Scolar Press, 1978
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
[Place of publication not identified] : McGraw-Hill International Book Co., 1976
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Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1999
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Amsterdam, Voor den auteur, als ook by G. Valck 1705
Amsterdam, Voor den auteur, als ook by G. Valck 1705
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Ostfildern : Hatje, 1997
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Leipzig : Insel-verlag, 1935
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Munich : Prestel, 2003
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Ostfildern : G. Hatje, 1998
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Hamburg : Hoffmann und Campe, 1964
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Tielt : [Den Haag] : Lannoo ; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, 2016
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