Martin Lister and His Daughters | Scientific Illustrators

They started at a young age, taught by their father, and spent almost a decade working on his project Historiae Conchyliorum, a study of molluscs with detailed illustrations of shells. They were Susanna and Anna(e) Lister and they lived more than three hundred years ago. Now there is a book that sheds a light on their story.

Read the Article | Nature | Beth Fowkes

And if you have more time, I would recommends the following article The Art of science: a ‘Rediscovery’ of the Lister Copperplates by the same author, Prof. Anna Marie Roos

Link to Historiae conchyliorum, liber primus [-quartus] / [Martin Lister] on Wellcome Collection website https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vk69e3p9