Maria Sibylla Merian
German-born Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a Naturalist, an Entomologist and a Botanical Illustrator and is rated as being one of the greatest ever botanical artists.
Google Doodle Maria Sibylla Merian's 366th Biryhday
- Google Doodle:
Oh! April 2, 2013 has an awesome event! Google celebrates the 366th brithday of Maria Sibylla Merian with a beautiful Doodle featuring various forms of small wildlife – butterflies, caterpillars, a lizard, and more.
credits: Maria Sibylla Merian
German-born Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a Naturalist, an Entomologist and a Botanical Illustrator and is rated as being one of the greatest ever botanical artists.
From childhood, she had been fascinated by the life cycles of butterflies, and she made a close study of their transformations. She became a flower-painter and teacher in Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
Her works on insect development and the transformation of insects through the process of metamorphosis contributed to the advance of Entomology in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
As a botanical artist, Merian published three collections of plant engraving from 1675 to 1680. In preparation for a catalogue of European moths, butterflies, and other insects, Merian collected, raised, and observed living insects, rather than working from preserved specimens.
Maria Sibylla Merian also drew other species such as snakes, iguanas, spiders, and frogs – and these drawings are still highly collectible.
New Book of Flowers
Maria Sibylla Merian
She died in 1717 after suffering a stroke a couple of years earlier. Erucarum Ortus Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis, a collection of her work, was published later by her daughter.
MERIAN, Maria Sibylla (1647-1717).
Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis.
Amsterdam: Johannes Oosterwijk, [1718].
Education:
You know me! I am a huge fan of reading at school. And I don't miss a good resource to include it into every day lesson!
Today, we are very lucky! We have a wonderful theme to share with our students! Maria Sibylla Merian. Oh! dear lovely paintings!
Today, we are very lucky! We have a wonderful theme to share with our students! Maria Sibylla Merian. Oh! dear lovely paintings!
Maria Sibylla Merian
Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
Sara B. Pomeroy &
Today 2 April is International Children's Book Day. Same day of Maria Sibylla Merin birthday.
We can enriched International Children's Book introducing Maria Sibylla Merian as a different kind of reading. Discovering the beauty of nature and species by her beautiful painting books.
We don't read only Literature and Poetry in Languages curriculum. We read different kind of thematic texts. And reading about Science and Botanic will improve students reading skills to better understand sciences curriculum.
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So, put your students on their tablets or smartphones, and let them discover Maria Sibylla Merian.
William Home Lizars, Portrait of Madame Merian (from "The Naturalist's Library," volume 30) (detail), 1835
NMWA; Print collection assembled by Nancy Valentine, purchased with funds donated by Mr. Oliver R. Grace
Activities:
Curricula: Languages; Sciences; Arts.
Level: All levels
- Invite the students to find 'Google' letters on the Doodle.
- They can read about the life of Maria Sibylla Merian, and explore highlights of her work.
- Girls will be delighted to know a new woman in Science! Ask them their opinion about this incredible woman after a good research.
Curricula: Languages; Sciences; Arts.
Level: All levels
Each teacher will adapt activities to the level they are teaching.
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
Maria Mitchell
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02.04.2023
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