Plate LXIX Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium

Maria Sibylla Merian

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Project title:

Maria Sibylla Merian and the Strategies of Visualisation of Natural Scientific Knowledge

ZFMK Project lead:

Dr. Katharina Schmidt-Loske

Unit:

Biohistoricum

Object of research:

Animals

Description

2015

Maria Sibylla Merian

The research project includes a variety of topics: Merian’s methods of researching butterflies, from the scientific empirism to Merian’s invention of the visualisation of knowledge; the production of knowledge; scientific research of other scientists and artists in the 17^th century and their strategies of visualisation of knowledge; the international trade connected to the discovery of the new world; the function of universal collections and cabinets of “naturalia” in Germany, the Netherlands and England.

Prof. Dr. Kurt Wengl, Frankfurt, in cooperation with Dr. Katharina Schmidt-Loske