Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
ISBN-10
0156032996
ISBN-13
9780156032995
Series
Chrysalis
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Kim Todd

Description

Traces the life and work of the pioneering seventeenth-century woman naturalist, discussing her unprecedented solo expedition to study insect metamorphosis in the New World and her role in the establishment of a new branch of biology.

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