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Maria Sibylla Merian: The Woman Who Sailed to South America to Watch Caterpillars Turn Into Butterflies
What would make a 52-year-old woman sell 255 of her own paintings, board a ship with only her daughter for company, and sail to a rainforest on the other side of the Atlantic? For Maria Sibylla Merian, the answer was simple: she needed to study insects.
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