Jeannette Villepreux-Power

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   Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 05:16:32 JST Sheril Kirshenbaum

   Born in 1794, pioneering marine biologist Jeannette Villepreux-Power collected specimens from local fisherman in Sicily for study. She built a natural history collection & was especially interested in cephalopods like octopus & squid 🐙.

   Villepreux-Power invented the modern aquarium was one of the first people to observe living cephalopods & their behaviors.

   Unfortunately, much of her work & collections were lost in a shipwreck in 1843. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Villepreux-Power #HistoryRemix #science #history