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Contents 8 Foreword 10 Preface 13 Acknowledgments 18 Illustrations 21 Part 1 The Flowering of Ecology 28 Chapter 1 Before the Transformation 30 Introduction 30 Art and Science Intertwined 32 Insects in Drawings and Manuscripts 35 Still Life Painting 43 Finding God in Nature 44 Natural History of Insects in Printed Works 48 Publishing Illustrated Natural History Books 54 Studies of Insect Metamorphosis 56 Chapter 2 A Life Investigated 66 Growing up in Frankfurt am Main 66 Early Fascination with Insects 76 Marriage and the Move to Nuremberg 79 The Flower Books 86 Beginnings of the Raupen Books 93 Merian’s Motivations 96 Chapter 3 Described and Painted from Life 101 Fieldwork: The Basis of Merian’s Empirical Studies 102 Laboratory Work 105 Merian’s Study Journal 110 Merian’s Other Sources of Information 116 Illustrating the Raupen Book 117 Composing the Images 119 Making the Plates 123 Merian’s Counterproofs 125 Composing the Text 128 Financing, Printing and Marketing the Raupen Book 130 Chapter 4 For the Benefit of Naturalists 135 The Rupsen Books 137 The Last Caterpillar Book 144 Later Editions and Their Lasting Effects 144 Recognition and Reception by Near Contemporaries 148 Merian

Author

Etheridge, Kay;

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