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Aquarium: How Jeannette Power Invented Aquariums to Observe Marine Life

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"In 1818, Jeannette Power, a young French woman moved to Sicily and fell in love with the Mediterranean Sea and the Argonaut octopus. Amazing fact: The Argonaut octopus creates a delicate shell for itself which it uses to travel up and down in the water and as a safe place to raise its young. At the time, though, the only way to study a marine animal was if it was dead on land. That wasn't good enough. Jeannette wanted to study this four-inch or 10 cm, creature alive. She had many questions: did it create its own shell, how ...

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Aquarium: How Jeannette Power Invented Aquariums to Observe Marine Life 2023, Mims House Books

ISBN-13: 9781629442334

Trade paperback

Aquarium: How Jeannette Power Invented Aquariums to Observe Marine Life 2023, Mims House

ISBN-13: 9781629442327

Hardcover