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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
de TODD, Kim
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- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1845114310
- ISBN 13
- 9781845114312
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
TODD, Kim
ISBN: 9781845114312
I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., London, 2007, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards dark green/gilt, light green endbands, decorated end papers, illustrated throughout from b/w photographs and copies of pen and ink drawings by Maria Merian, 328 pp.
Boards clean and firm, very gentle rubs to head and tail of spine, neat inscription on half title page, no annotations, sound square binding, pages clean and bright. Wrapper clean and crisp, gentle rubs to top edge and spine head. Lovely copy.
BIOGRAPHY, MARIA MERIAN, FEMALE NATURALIST, ARTIST, SCIENTIST, EXPLORER, 17TH & 18TH CENTURY
46411 BIOG/M £26.50
Sinopsis
Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, she was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty she sailed from Europe to the New World on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis—an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at that time, much less a woman. When she returned she produced a book that secured her reputation, only to have it savaged in the nineteenth century by scientists who disdained the work of “amateurs.” Exquisitely written and illustrated, Chrysalis takes us from golden-age Amsterdam to the Surinam tropics to modern laboratories where Merian’s insights fuel a new branch of biology. Kim Todd brings to life a seventeenth-century woman whose boldness and vision would still be exceptional today.
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- Daisyroots Books Ltd
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 46411
- Título
- Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
- Autor
- TODD, Kim
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1845114310
- ISBN 13
- 9781845114312
- Editorial
- I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Páginas
- 328 pp
- Palabras clave
- BIOGRAPHY, MARIA MERIAN, FEMALE NATURALIST, ARTIST, SCIENTIST, EXPLORER, 17TH & 18TH CENTURY
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- Biog;
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