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Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717 · The Scientific Vision of Women · Duke University Library Exhibits
https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/2024sciencewomen/women/mmerian
Merian was an educator and an entrepreneur and was able to independently finance her 1699 voyage to Suriname to document entomological (...)
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Unraveling the Mysteries of the Renaissance: My Unexpected Journey in the Medieval/Renaissance FOCUS
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2024/02/12/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-the-renaissance-my-unexpected-journey-in-the-medieval-renaissance-focus-cluster/
Two Menelaus Blue Morpho butterflies fluttering around its caterpillar form on a Barbados Cherry, from Maria Sibylla Merian’s Insects of (...)
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Never Done: Research Opportunities in the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection · Five Hundred Years of Women
https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/essays/never-done
The beauty of her engravings of the metamorphoses of caterpillars and other insects is justly celebrated, but in addition to being a scientist (...)