Did you know that Maria Sibylla Merian was an accomplished artist, an excellent naturalist, and a bold explorer? Well, she was because she was born a naturalist and she became a scientist. When she started learning about insects and plants she went to different places and discovered new things. She also experimented new things too so she could see how she could do her experiments. Maria Sibylla Merian was a naturalist (a naturalist someone who studies and knows a lot about history.) and a scientific illustrator (a scientific illustrator is someone who represents the aspects of science.) and she studied insects and plants and painted pictures of insects and plants that made her famous(“Maria Sibylla Merian Facts”).
Merian was a German-born naturalist and a scientific illustrator that made lots of paintings. Maria Sibylla Merian was born on
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She thought that being women influenced her today because she was painting pictures and selling it to a lot of different people. Also, her life influence has been charted in a handful of excellent works, including Etheridge’s essay, Kim Todd’s, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of the Metamorphosis, and Mark Lard's, A Natural History of English Gardening (Wulf, Andrea). She inspired other women because when she got her daughter she started a series in 1675-1680. In 1699 at age 52, she started searching for exotic plants and insects. She also went on a dangerous trip with her younger daughter to the Dutch colony of Suriname(“National Museum of Women in the Arts”). She collected, studied, and drew insects and plants for two years. She learned how to illustrate, draw, and mixing plants and etching copper plates from Matthaus Merian, her father. Merian thought that it was easy studying with insects that derived from her ability to capture in fine detail what she had