Chrysalis; Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. Merian, Maria Sibylla. First edition. Hardcover. 328p + 16 plates, 8 in color. As new / very good. Item #31492
"Taking us from golden-age Amsterdam to the sweltering rain forests of Surinam to modern laboratories where Merian's insights [into insect metamorphosis] fuel a new branch of biology, Kim Todd brings to life an amazing seventeenth-century woman whose boldness and vision would still be exceptional today."
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