The figure of a pioneering scientific woman, the German Maria Sibylla Merian, precursor of concerns about science that opened a whole line of research that other naturalists and scientists would later take as a reference for their own studies, such as the metamorphosis of caterpillars in diurnal and nocturnal butterflies. The work broadens its meaning as it is not only a portrait of this important woman also is a contemporary representation of women as transmitters of knowledge
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