"In the 17th century, when insects were called "beasts of the devil", and women were virtually excluded from the field of science, a young German woman named Ma

"In the 17th century, when insects were called "beasts of the devil", and women were virtually excluded from the field of science, a young German woman named Ma

"In the 17th century, when insects were called "beasts of the devil", and women were virtually excluded from the field of science, a young German woman named Ma

This is a full-size facsimile of the magnum opus of Maria Sibylla Merian, a significant contributor to the field of entomology because of her careful observatio

In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis—years before any other scientist published an acc