Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

Kim Todd

328 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, she was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty she sailed from Eu...

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