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Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis / Kim Todd.
Publication details: Orlando, [Fla.] : Harcourt, 2007.Edition: 1st Harvest edDescription: 330 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780156032995 (pbk.)
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 595.709 TOD | Available | 054903 |
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"A Harvest book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-317) and index.
Traces the life and work of the pioneering seventeenth-century woman naturalist, discussing her unprecedented solo expedition to study insect metamorphosis in the New World and her role in the establishment of a new branch of biology.
