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Maria Sibylla Merian - Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of miles from their home in the Netherlands to the rainforests of South America seeking new and amazing insects to observe and illustrate.
Years after her death, Merian's accurate and beautiful illustrations were used by scientists, including Carl Linnaeus, to classify species, and today her prints and paintings are prized by museums around the world. More than a dozen species of plants and animals are named after Merian.
The first Merian biography written for ages 10 and up, this book will enchant budding scientists and artists alike. Readers will be inspired by Merian's talent, curiosity, and grit and will be swept up in the story of her life, which was adventurous even by today's standards.
With its lively text, quotations from Merian's own study book, and fascinating sidebars on history, art, and science, this volume is an ideal STEAM title for readers of all ages and interests.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Getty Publications
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781947440012
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 26 x 22 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Moonbeam Awards 2018 and The American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer List, recognizing feminist literature for young readers 2019.
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Sarah B. Pomeroy is Distinguished Professor of Classics and History, Emerita, at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of Women's History and has changed the paradigm in the field of Classical Studies. Her many publications about Greek and Roman women and ancient history include "Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity"; "Women in Hellenistic Egyp
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Sarah Pomeroy led the way in Classics with the first real history of women in the Classical world with her 1975 Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. In this edition the author provides show more an updated preface but otherwise the work remains substantially the same.
Pomeroy began with the theology of the Classical world and how the Greeks and Romans imagined their gods and goddesses. She then considered what can be known of Greek women in the Bronze Age and in Homeric epic (~2500-1000 BCE), the “dark age” and archaic period (1000-500 BCE), women in Athens, public and private from 500-300 BCE, how women were portrayed in the literature of Athens at that time, women in the Hellenistic world (332-30 BCE), Roman matrons of the period around 150 BCE-100 CE, women of the lower classes of Rome, and finally how women functioned within Roman religion.
The story overall is one of marginalization, especially in classical Athens. While it cannot be doubted that the story presented in the Old and New Testaments has its points of misogyny, it becomes painfully apparent in this reading how much of the heritage of modern Western misogyny in fact stems from the classical Greek authors. Their view of women and their capacities was quite dismal. Women would obtain slightly more freedom in previous times and in the Hellenstic age, and Roman women would be able to enjoy slightly more freedom, but nothing approaching anything we would imagine as true freedom or equality in worth or valu
The Lady Joan Reid Children’s Author in Residence, Professor Sarah B. Pomeroy recently sat down with our Founding Director, Márcia Balisciano, via the internet, to discuss her upcoming book Benjamin Franklin, Swimmer.
Professor Pomeroy, a distinguished Professor emeritus of Classics and History at the City University of New York, is an accomplished author of numerous books, articles, and reviews on the topic of Women in Antiquity, including the classic Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. She has won many awards, including the Ford Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Mellon Foundation Fellowship. Her pioneering work has been instrumental in our understanding of women in history.
In this short conversation, Professor Pomeroy spoke extensively about her research into Benjamin Franklin’s love of swimming and how he swam extensively in the Thames and the Seine during his time in London and Paris respectively. Professor Pomeroy also spoke on some of the challenges she faced as a woman early in her career and how she was able to overcome these hurdles and later publishing her thought-provoking and pioneering work on the leading role women played in the ancient world.
Transcript below:
MB: It is my pleasure to welcome Sarah Pomeroy, the Lady Joan Reid Children’s Author in residence to speak with us today. Sarah is also the distinguished Professor emeritus of Classics and History at the City University of New York. Welcome Sarah.
SP: Thank you Marcia, nice to be with you.
MB: Well I wanted to start by asking you what drew you to a career as a historian.
SP: The Greek Herodotus, father of history, called his work historia, which means research. I’ve always been interested in doing research and finding out what was not known before and discovering the relationships between facts that are known. For example, I deduced that on his second visi .