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Chrysalis
Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis
By Todd, Kim W.
- ISBN
- 978-0-15101-108-7
- Publisher
- Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 15, 2007
Women's contributions to science have historically been overlooked or discredited, and we are left with the impression that women played no role in the field's advancement. Such was the case for the gifted naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), whose watercolors and text documented the (still-mysterious) process of metamorphosis at the turn of the 17th century. Though her work was valued at the time, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
