The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science / Joyce Sidman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]Description: 120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0544717139
- 9780544717138
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 -- Juvenile literature
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 -- Juvenile literature
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- Entomology -- Germany -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile literature
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- Scientific illustration -- Germany -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile literature
- Scientists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women naturalists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Insects -- Metamorphosis -- Juvenile literature
- QL31.M53 S53 2018
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Youth Collection | QK98.2.M47 S53 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800170821 |
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QK98.2.F76 M33 2018 Nature's friend : the Gwen Frostic story / | QK98.2 .M47 2010 Summer birds : the butterflies of Maria Merian / | QK98.2.M47 P66 2018 Maria Sibylla Merian : artist, scientist, adventurer / | QK98.2.M47 S53 2018 The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science / | QK98.2.O32 R67 2000 Nature art with Chiura Obata / | QK98.5.A1 R53 2013 10 plants that shook the world / | QK98.6.A4 H25 2018 A walk on the tundra / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The girl in the garden -- Egg -- Hatching -- First instar -- Second instar -- Third instar -- Fourth instar -- Molting -- Pupa -- Eclosing -- Expanding -- Flight -- Egg -- The woman in her world.
Some have called Maria Sybilla Merian (born in 1647) the world's first ecologist, even though the word "ecology" wasn't coined until more than 50 years after her death. As this illustrated biography details, her scientific illustrations documented insect life cycles and associated plant species at a time when other naturalists were still proponents of Aristotle's theory of spontaneous generation. (Miller Library Staff)
"Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
Ages 10-12.
Grades 4 to 6.
Recommended for primary school (age 6-12) and up.