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Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer for the animal lover William EgglestonSarah B. Pomeroy and Jeyaraney Kathirithamby Science and art combine in this captivating, lushly illustrated biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (16471717), one of the worlds first entomologists, who was also a botanist, naturalist, and celebrated artist. In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Merian began her study of butterfly metamorphosisyears before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, she and her daughter Dorothea