Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Maria Sibylla Merian: Inspired her love of nature and art in her daughters

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Maria Sibylla Merian: Inspired her love of nature and art in her daughters

The German naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian is today being honoured by a Google doodle, on the 366th anniversary of her birth. Merian is known in the world of science and scenery for studying plants and insects and producing meticulous paintings

Google's going conservational today to honor a natural woman: Maria Sibylla Merian, a scientific illustrator born April 2, 1647. (She doesn't look a day older than 360!) Merian is best known for the illustrated text Metamorphosis

In the 1600′s the general consensus (apparently) was that butterflies generated spontaneously out of decomposing mud. Clearly, natural history was not a well loved pastime. At this time in Germany Maria Sibylla Merian spent her

The life of Maria Sibylla Merian, a 17th century German-born naturalist, entomologist, botanical illustrator, and divorced mother of two, paints a vivid picture for today's parents on how to get kids into science using art. Ms. Merian, the subject of

If you like art, then you may know that today is the birthday of one of the world's most talented scientific illustrators, Maria Sibylla Merian. Long before the camera was invented, she acted as the world's eyes by painting stunning and scientifically

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