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's central concerns here are with the imagination and with the idea of the transmigration of souls. She writes, however, about a huge range of topics: a myriad writers and visual artists, and workers...
Residence
Anna Maria van Schurman
During her lifetime, the community repeatedly moved locations in response to local disapproval: from Amsterdam to Herford and then Altona in Germany, and finally to Wieuwerd in Holland.
Irwin, Joyce L. “Anna Maria van Schurman: The Star of Utrecht (Dutch, 1607-1678)”. Female Scholars: A Tradition of Learned Women Before 1800, edited by Jeanie R. Brink, Eden Press, pp. 68-85.
She may have seen, exhibited at the British Museum
, the wonderful coloured representations of tropical insects and plants by the Dutchwoman Maria Merian
.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Timeline
1705: The German-born entomologist Maria Sibilla...
Writing climate item
1705
The German-born entomologist Maria Sibilla Merian
(1647-1717) published at Amsterdam her handsome folio titled in Latin Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium and illustrated by herself.
Her second name is variously spelled. The British Library Catalogue records Sibylla...