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Happy birthday to Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my with many from her collection.

Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous , published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵

Happy birthday & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, "I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed".⁠

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Happy birthday to Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my with many from her collection.

Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous , published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, …

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Happy birthday & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, "I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed".⁠
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Hypatia
Queen Seondeok
Margaret Cavendish
Maria Sibylla Merian
Émilie du Châtelet
Astronomer Caroline Herschel
Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
Mary Anning
Astronomer Mary Somerville
Marine Jeanne Villepreux-Power
Anna Atkins
Nurse & statistician Florence Nightingale
Mathematician Sophia Kovalevski
Physicist Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt
& medical research Maude Menten