In the table it is possible to admire an illustration with pomegranate fruit and insects, taken from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, a collection of sixty hand-colored chalcographies published in 1705 by Maria Sibylla Merian. In the volume, a wonderful series of images depicts and catalogs the countless species of plants, animals, and insects from the New World, the result of Merian's two years of explorations and researches in the state of Surinam
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