Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis

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 Europe to the New World on a solo scientificÂ expedition to study insect metamorphosisâ€”an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at that time, much less a woman. When she returned she produced a book that secured her reputation, only to have it savaged in the nineteenth century by scientists who disdained the work of â€œamateurs.â€
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Exquisitely written and illustrated, Chrysalis takes us from golden-age Amsterdam to the Surinam tropics to modern laboratories where Merianâ€™s insights fuel a new branch of biology. Kim Todd brings to life a seventeenth-century woman whose boldness and vision would still be exceptional today.
Country USA
Manufacturer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780151011087
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis