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How Did Merina Sibylla Merian Transform The Field Of Entomology?

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At the end of his book Matt Simon celebrates significant scientists throughout history, including the natural historian Maria Merian, who studied bugs in Surinam in 1699. Merina Sibylla Merian helped transform the field of entomology; the scientific study of insects. She devoted herself to insect investigation and her images were not only beautiful but also scientifically accurate. Merian contributed to the advancement of the field of entomology because of her work on insect development and specifically metamorphosis. She studied this maturation by collecting caterpillars and studying the insects’ maturation into butterflies. In her published works the insects depicted are shown on or next to their food source, plants. With text next to her
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