Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Maria Sibylla Merian: The 17th-century entomologist who proved that caterpillars turn to butterflies
Most school kids can describe in detail the life cycle of butterflies: eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars turn into cocoons and cocoons hatch. This seemingly basic bit of biology was once ...
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 ...
It was silkworms that first captured 13–year–old Maria Sibylla Merian’s attention. She would later graduate to a wider set of creatures, watching caterpillars, pupae, butterflies, and moths for days, ...
During the 17th century, when it was generally believed that insects spontaneously generated from dirt, old wool, and rotten meat, Maria Sibylla Merian found them fascinating. Her work as a naturalist ...
Maria Sibylla Merian (also known as Maria Sybilla Merian) was well into her 50s when she set sail for South America. She spent two years studying wildlife in Surinam, and six plants, nine butterflies ...
Most school kids can describe in detail the life cycle of butterflies — eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars turn into cocoons and cocoons hatch. This seemingly basic bit of biology was once ...
Seventeenth-century German artist, scientific illustrator and naturalist, Anna Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) is best known for her travels and research in Dutch Suriname, South America. At a time ...
In 2026, Compton Verney will bring a rare constellation of Dutch and Flemish Old Master drawings from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium to the heart of Warwickshire — many of them never before ...
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