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Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) [1] was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family.
It was described by Maria Sibylla Merian in her 1705 publication Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, and Pieter Cramer provided the formal description of the species in 1776. The most commonly accepted English name is the white witch. Other common names include the ghost moth, great gray witch and great owlet moth.
It is also called the Goliath tarantula or Goliath bird-eating spider; [2] the practice of calling theraphosids "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 rarely preys on birds. [3] [2]
Maria Clara Eimmart (1676–1707), German astronomer; Marie Fouquet (1590–1681), French medical writer; Eleanor Glanville (1654–1709), English entomologist; Elisabeth Hevelius (1647–1693), Polish astronomer; Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist [1]: 206 Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610–1680), French chemist and alchemist
Maria Sibylla and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Suriname to study the different life stages of insects there and the plants on which they lived. On their return, Merian published in 1705 the lavishly illustrated Metamorphosis Surinamensis. Noblewomen sometimes cultivated their own botanical gardens, including Mary Somerset and Margaret ...
It was believed, mainly on the authority of Maria Sibylla Merian, that this process, the so-called lantern, was luminous at night in the living insect. Carl Linnaeus adopted the statement without question and coined a number of specific names, such as laternaria, phosphorea and candelaria to illustrate the supposed fact, and thus propagated the ...
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