Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis - Couverture souple

Todd, Kim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156032996 ISBN 13 : 9780156032995

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2007

Synopsis

Chrysalis Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa's skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene or knock it out. What she can't do is discover how the insect behaves in its natural habitat--which means she doesn't know what steps to take to preserve it from extinction, nor how any particular gene may interact with the environment. Four hundred years ago, a fifty-year-old Dutch woman set sail on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis. She could not have imagined the routine magic that scientists perform today--but her absolute insistence on stud...

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PRAISE FOR CHRYSALIS

"Todd's book is a portrait of the metamorphosis of an age, a society, and a woman whose passion to see the world through the metaphor of moths and butterflies would not abate. The illustrations reproduced in this fine biography affirm Merian's vision; the range of Todd's research and the eloquence of her writing give that vision voice."--Maurice Manning, BookForum

"In this spellbinding biography, Todd interweaves the life of Maria Sibylla Merian, a German artist and naturalist who became famous in the seventeenth century for her engravings of caterpillars, with the intellectual and scientific history of metamorphosis."--The New Yorker

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0156032996
• ISBN 13: 9780156032995
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352