REITSMA, Ella. - Maria Sibylla Merian & dochters. Vrouwenlevens tussen kunst en wetenschap. Met medewerking van Sandrine Ulenberg.

Zwolle, Waanders, 2008. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 160 coloured illustrations. 263 p. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717 was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly. In 1699 she travelled to Dutch Suriname to study and record the tropical insects.

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