Maria Sibylla Merian Pint Glass Music sending astronauts on manned missions

sending astronauts on manned missions and probing deeper into the universe

Take this fungus-inspired notebook into the woods and use it to record your findings from the forest floor

Take this journal with you on your next adventure

Give one any time you don’t know what to say

Brush up on your cardiac rhythms over your morning iced latte or unwind at the end of the day with a fancy cocktail in your new favorite glass

Maria Sibylla Merian Pint Glass Music sending astronauts on manned missionsThere was once a time when people thought that insects were born of mud by spontaneous generation. Raise a glass to Maria Sibylla Merian who proved these people wrong. She did this by documenting evidence on the life cycles of 186 insects, and was among the first professionally trained artists to illustrate her lifelong studies and observations. She observed many of these insects in 1699, when she sold 255 of her own paintings to fund a trip for her