Many scholars studied the works and life of Maria Sibylla Merian. Below you find a selection of important publications and links to these publications online. Some of them are on Google Books and only offer parts of the publication.

• Andreolle, Donna Spalding e.a., Women and Science: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (Cambridge 2011) 35-54.
• Attenborough, David e.a., Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery (Carlsbad 2009) 138-175.
• Bracken, Susan e.a., Women Patrons and Collectors (Cambridge 2011) 67-81.
• Cristini, Luca Stefano, Flowers, Butterflies, Insects, Caterpillars and Serpents (2014) 5-8.
• Davis, Nathalie Zemon, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives (Harvard 1995) 140-216.
• Egerton, F. N., A History of Ecological Sciences, Part 30: Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology During the 1700’s (2008).
• Freedberg, David e.a., Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (1996).
• Goulden, Clyde, Changing Scenes in the Natural Sciences, 1776-1976 (Drexel 2008) 13-28.
• Huigen, Siegfrid, The Dutch Trading Companies As Knowledge Networks (Leiden 2010) 59-102.
• Kistemaker, Renée E. e.a., The Paper Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg c.1725-1760, Introduction and Interpretation (Amsterdam 2005).
• Margoscy, Daniel, Commercial Visions. Science, Trade and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago 2014).
• Marshall, Julia, Articulate Images: Bringing the Pictures of Science and Natural History into the Art Curriculum (2004).
• Nachtomy, Ohad, The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford 2014) 233-235.
• Neri, Janice, The Insects and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 (Minnesota 2011) 139-179.
• Paas, John Roger, Der Franken Rom: Nürnbergs Blütezeit in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts (1995) 95-112.
• Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth, Maria Sibylla Merian: The Dawn of Field Ecology in the Forests of Suriname, 1699-1701 (Wales 2012).
• Park, Katharine e.a., The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science (Cambridge 2003) 202-203.
• Pieters, Florence F. J. M. en Diny Winthagen, Maria Sibylla Merian, Naturalist and Artist (1647-1717): a Commemoration on the Occasion of the 350th Anniversary of Her Birth (Amsterdam 1999).
• Schiebinger, Londa, The Mind has no Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Harvard 1991) 68-78.
• Schmidt-Loske, Katharina, Historical Sketch, Maria Sibylla Merian-Metamorphosis of insects (Bonn 2010).
• Todd, Kim, Chrysalis, Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of Metamorphosis (United States 2007).