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Finding Wonders - Three Girls Who Changed Science (Paperback, Reprint ed.)
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Finding Wonders - Three Girls Who Changed Science (Paperback, Reprint ed.)
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List price R221
Loot Price R170
Discovery Miles 1 700
You Save R51 (23%)
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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. 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. To him they were merely a source of
income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. 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 whaling village of Nantucket. At
night they explored the starry sky through his telescope. Maria
longed to discover a new comet-and after years of studying the
night sky, she finally did. Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this
stunning novel celebrates the joy of discovery and finding wonder
in the world around us.
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