Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian from 1679 ... Entomology (the study of insects) didn't become a distinct field of science until the nineteenth century. In 1665, aged 18, Merian married one of her ...

In the 17th century, it has been widely believed that insects were just spontaneously born of mud, dirt, or rotting flesh, but that notion has been changed to what we know today, thanks to Maria ...

Florencia Campetella, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on Maria Sibylla Merian - 17th century entomologist, artist, naturalist and proto-ecologist Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Frankfurt ...