The Lady And The Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-power Invent

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Nombre: The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine B
Marca: Carolrhoda Books ®

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About the Author

Danna Staaf is a freelance science communicator with a PhD in marine biology. Her writing has appeared in Science, KQED, Earther, and io9, and her first book, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods (now reprinted as Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods), was named one of the best science books of 2017 by NPR. She created the science outreach program Squids4Kids and visits schools at every grade level, as well as venues from museums to libraries to tech companies. She lives in San Jose with her spouse, children, and innumerable plush octopuses.

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Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how of the argonaut octopus gets its shell.
In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was determined to experiment on living animals. And to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, she had to invent a contraption to hold themthe aquarium. Her remarkable life story is told by author, marine biologist, and octopus enthusiast Danna Staaf.

From School Library Journal

Gr 8 UpThis biography seems on the surface to be a typical description of a historic female scientist whose discoveries went unheralded in her lifetime. More careful consideration reveals that this author is as resourceful and ingenious in relating the story of her subject as Jeanne Villepreux-Power was in her scholarly endeavors. Though she grew up in obscurity in rural France during the French Revolution, Villepreux-Power bravely ventured to Paris when she was 17 years old. There she parlayed her creativity and initiative into jobs in women's fashions. Her design of a wedding dress for a princess brought her notoriety and the particular attention of her future husband. Villepreux-Power moved to Sicily with her husband and began her self-education and experimentation with the natural world. She became an expert in many areas of natural history and biology, but her most important accomplishments were in the study of cephalopods and in the development of the apparatus needed for the study of these creatures in their natural environments. Villepreux-Power developed and employed several different aquariums and went to great efforts to see her findings published and her accomplishments acknowledged by her scientific contemporaries. This narrative not only features the compelling story of her life and work in vivid and accessible language, but also includes a helpful time line, glossary of key terms, index, source notes for each chapter, and suggestions for further reading. The frequent illustrations and feature insets provide important context for the main events in Villepreux-Power's life. VERDICT This life story of an important female pioneer in the sciences is highly recommended for middle and high school nonfiction collections.Kelly Kingrey-Edwards

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"From skilled dressmaker to respected naturalist, Jeanne Villepreux-Power wore many hats with aplomb. Staaf charts her life during the nineteenth century, following her from Paris to Messina (Sicily) to London, where this brilliant woman studied live marine lifemost notably the argonaut octopusin their natural environments and within glass aquariums (which she invented), in contrast to the common practice at the time of working only with dead specimens. Villepreux-Power proves a fascinating subject, as she defied many conventions surrounding the roles of women and wives and pushed the boundaries of scientific practices, but Staaf is just as interesting in her approach to historic biography. With an admirable level of transparency, Staaf informs readers of the facts she knows for certain verses areas of Villepreux-Power's life where she has used educated guesses (signaled b

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
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Medidas: 1 cm x 22 cm x 26 cm cm
Modelo: 9781728415772
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Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
EAN: 9781728415772
ASIN: 1728415772
GTIN: 9781728415772
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: Carolrhoda Books ®
Titulo del libro: The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine B
Autor: Staaf, Danna
Fecha de publicación: 2022-10-04 00:00:00
Idioma: Inglés
Editor: Carolrhoda Books ®
Número de páginas: 136
ISBN-13: 9781728415772
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Genero musical: Infantil - Juvenil
Contenido del paquete: 1 libro
SKU: 9781728415772