The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
2018
Book
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780544717138
- 0544717139
Description: 120 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Target Audience Note:
- Ages 10-12.
- Grades 4 to 6.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
LCCN: 2016057731
Control Number: 2412665
Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.Subjects:
- Entomologists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Entomology -- Germany -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Insects -- Metamorphosis -- Juvenile literature.
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 -- Juvenile literature.
- Scientific illustration -- Germany -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Scientific illustrators -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Scientists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Women naturalists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre: Biographies.