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Actor / Designer Jill Klein on Scienctific Illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history illustration.
- Scientific illustration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Look What SHE Did!, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Maria Sibylla Merian's gorgeous drawings of the life cycles of plants, spiders, snakes, butterflies and other insects changed the way we see them. An independent-minded 17th century German, she was one of the first people- male or female- to insist on the validity of studying bugs. Her drawings and scientific observations were based on facts rather than the normal approach of the day- applying popular moral codes stressing male dominance in deference to God.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 15, 2024).
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI.
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