Art

No. 397: Maria Merian
A talented German artist writes books on Surinamese entomology, offending the consciences of 17th-century colonialists. As a result, some of her drawings are now being published for the first time, three hundred years after they were created.

No. 891: Maria Martin
A woman dedicates her life, first artistically and later in marriage, to a reverend who doubled as a scientist.

No. 547: Bertha E. Jaques
An upper-middle class housewife "with an engineer's eye" invents the technology of etching using nitric acid and copper plates.

No. 943: Fairyland of Science
Arabella Buckley's science books for children prove to be not only exquisitely artistic but also solid enough for adult reading.

Architecture

No. 1247: Three Women Architects
Of America's first three female architects, one becomes a novel writer, one demands equal pay, and one suffers a nervous breakdown.

No. 872: Julia Morgan
The first female civil engineering graduate designs the hilltop retreat portrayed as Xanadu in Orson Wells' film Citizen Kane.

No. 971: Maya Lin's Memorial
An architecture student, detached from the war by age and experience, designs a bleakly accurate Vietnam memorial.