Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European...
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including Matthäus Merian the Younger. Maria Magdalena de Bry died in 1645 and the following year Matthäus married Johanna Sibylla Heim. Five years later...
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Parasitoid (section Maria Sibylla Merian)
used in biological pest control. The 17th-century zoological artist Maria Sibylla Merian closely observed parasitoids and their hosts in her paintings. The...
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Matthäus Merian the Younger (1621–1687), Swiss painter Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator Johann Bernhard Merian (1723–1807)...
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"bird-eating" derives from an early 18th-century copper engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian that shows one eating a hummingbird. Despite the spider's name, it...
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is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Maria Sibylla Merian in her 1705 publication Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, and...
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publishers in the 17th century. Matthäus Merian's daughter was the naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian. The family name is not limited to Basel...
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Maria Graff was born in Nuremberg as the daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff, and learned to paint from them and her...
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Johanna Helena Herolt (category Merian family)
similar to her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian, with her draftsmanship. Herolt was the eldest daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas...
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fritillary by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, based on a 1705 painting by Maria Sibylla Merian (The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam, Plate XXV), which shows...
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moth (Meriansborstel) comes from the butterfly and insect painter Maria Sibylla Merian. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th...
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and apically upturned. It was believed, mainly on the authority of Maria Sibylla Merian, that this process, the so-called lantern, was luminous at night...
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whose maternal grandmother was the famous scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) and whose father was the Swiss Baroque painter Georg...
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Zhurbin. Nabokov's interest in entomology was inspired by books by Maria Sibylla Merian he found in the attic of his family's country home in Vyra. Throughout...
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stepdaughter Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) in the art of still-life painting. Maria Sibylla Merian was the daughter of the engraver Matthew Merian (1647–1717)...
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The specific name, merianae, is in honor of German-born naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, a naturalist and artist who studied insects, plants, and reptiles...
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2017. It is named after the Dutch-German naturalist and painter Maria Sibylla Merian, in recognition of her studies on tarantulas. "Taxon details Avicularia...
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Heim(ius), the widow of Matthäus Merian, who died in 1650. He took on students, and his wife's daughter Maria Sibylla Merian became a renowned painter of...
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Friedrich von Gleichen, German microscopist (died 1783) January 13 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born naturalist (born 1647) March 8 – Abraham Darby I, English...
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butterflies of Japan Hans Rebel of Austria: butterflies of the Palearctic Maria Sibylla Merian of the Dutch Republic: butterflies and moths of Surinam Ruggero Verity...
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cost. In her 1705 book the Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Maria Sibylla Merian described how the young indigenous women would string the seeds on...
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the Great, the Austrian empress Maria Theresa and Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden. More famous is Maria Sibylla Merian, who was not wealthy. The people...
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illustrator Maria Clara Eimmart created more than 350 detailed drawings of the moon phases. 1699: German entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, the first scientist...
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meaning "pertaining to." This refers to a 1705 illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian, showing a tarantula that appears to be of this genus feeding on...
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pulcherrima) or after treatment (e.g. C. bonduc after roasting). Maria Sibylla Merian, a 17th-century artist, encountered this plant in the Dutch colony...
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the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff. Dorothea Maria Graff (1678–1743) – daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann...
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the Qing dynasty Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1641) January 13 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born Swiss naturalist and scientific illustrator, who studied...
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1679 study of the silkworm metamorphosis by Maria Sibylla Merian, it depicts the fruit and leaves of a mulberry tree and the eggs and larvae of the silkworm...
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Main Microscope 2/1/1989 1/10/1990 31/12/2001 170×80 mm €255.65 Red Maria Sibylla Merian, historical buildings of Nuremberg Dandelion, Inchworm, Butterfly...
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Bevrijdingsdag 1946 (1946): Een voetreis naar Rome 1946 (1946): Maria Sibylla Merian, gedicht 1946 (1946): De zeemeerminnen 1947 (1947): Gedichten 1947 (1947):...
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