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- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
Publication Information
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Physical Description
120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Audience
Grades 4 to 6.
Summary
"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"--
Contents
- 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.
Subjects
- Entomologists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Entomology > History > 17th century > Juvenile literature.
- Scientific illustrators > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Scientific illustration > History > 17th century
- Scientists > Germany > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women naturalists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Insects > Metamorphosis > Juvenile literature.
- Entomologists > Biography.
- Entomology > History > 17th century.
- Scientific illustrators > Biography.
- Scientific illustration > History > 17th century.
- Scientists > Germany > Biography.
- Women naturalists > Biography.
- Insects > Metamorphosis.
- Women > Biography.
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 > Juvenile literature.
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717.