Google Doodle * Maria Sibylla Merian * Birthday 2 April 2013

Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 -- 13 January 1717) was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them. Her detailed observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly make her a significant, albeit not well known, contributor to entomology. her portrait was on the german 500 DM banknotes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Si...