Science Illustration: A Creative Door for Early Women in Science.
At the dawn of the 1900s, science remained a domain largely inaccessible to women. Despite societal constraints, a select group of pioneering women found a path to contribute to science through illustration.
By Raven Capone Benko via @SIAmericanWomen
https://womenshistory.si.edu/blog/science-illustration-creative-door-early-women-science
Where the atomic nuclei are: Maurice Sendak, physics illustrator
The first credited work of the famed children’s book author was a set of illustrations in a 1947 popular-science book about nuclear physics.
Original files are available at Hathi Thrust:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000672307
German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian died #OTD in 1717.
Her pioneering research in illustrating and describing the various stages of development, from egg to larva to pupa and finally to adult, dispelled the notion of spontaneous generation and established the idea that insects undergo distinct and predictable life cycles.
