Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian from 1679, possibly by Jacob Marrel. Courtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel. Maria Sibylla Merian's early life Merian was born on 2 April 1647 in Frankfurt, Germany, into a ...

Florencia Campetella, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on Maria Sibylla Merian - 17th century entomologist, artist, naturalist and proto-ecologist Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Frankfurt ...

In the 17th century, it has been widely believed that insects were just spontaneously born of mud, dirt, or rotting flesh, but that notion has been changed to what we know today, thanks to Maria ...

Manga and Leco delve into the captivating tale of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717), a pioneering German illustrator and naturalist known for her adventurous spirit. Merian broke through the ...