Finding Wonders Atkins Jeannine Paperback
Finding Wonders Atkins Jeannine Paperback This "evocative and beautiful" (School Library Journal) novel "vividly imagines the lives of three girls" (Booklist, starred review) in three different time…
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Finding Wonders Atkins Jeannine Paperback
This "evocative and beautiful" (School Library Journal) novel "vividly imagines the lives of three girls" (Booklist, starred review) in three different time periods as they grow up to become groundbreaking scientists.Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. To him they were merely a source of income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. Through careful observation she discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented her findings in gorgeous paintings of the life cycles of insects.More than a century later, Mary Anning helped her father collect stone sea creatures from the cliffs in southwest England.
Intrepid and patient, she eventually discovered fossils that would change people's vision of the past.Across the ocean, Maria Mitchell helped her mapmaker father in the