Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Museum of Art is excited to have recently acquired four early eighteenth-century hand-colored engravings by Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647–1717). Merian was an expert botanist and naturalist, ...

Most school kids can describe in detail the life cycle of butterflies: eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars turn into cocoons and cocoons hatch. This seemingly basic bit of biology was once ...

GARDENERS know they’re never alone. Visitors arrive nonstop, by land and by air. Birds, bees, butterflies, bats, beetles, snails, snakes, lizards, mice, frogs. Maria Sibylla Merian painted them all -- ...

If you love art, then you may know that today is the birthday of one of the world's most talented scientific illustrators, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). Long before the camera was invented, she ...

Maria Sibylla Merian (also known as Maria Sybilla Merian) was well into her 50s when she set sail for South America. She spent two years studying wildlife in Surinam, and six plants, nine butterflies ...

A special exhibition opened at a Tokyo museum during February that bridges the passing of three centuries between illustration and reality. Amateur butterfly enthusiast Shiraishi Yuji has been able to ...

Maria Merian's beautiful studies of butterflies still shimmer 300 years after they were painted, while the late David Michie's reputation continues to grow Maria Merian was an artist and scientist who ...

Maria Sibylla Merian's study of living organisms continues to lay the foundation for taxonomy centuries later You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

A Google doodle is today marking the 366th anniversary of the birth of Maria Sibylla Merian, German naturalist and scientific illustrator. A Google doodle celebrating the work of Maria Sibylla Merian ...