The Girl Who Built an Ocean: An Artist, an Argonaut, and the True Story of the World's First Aquarium

This is the remarkable story of Jeanne Villepreux-Power, a seamstress who became a pioneering scientist. After starting her career making dresses for Parisian aristocrats, she moved to the seaside and became captivated by marine life. She collected seashells, studied ocean creatures, and filled notebooks with her observations. Fascinated by the elusive argonaut, she sought a way to study it up close. This led her to invent the world's first aquarium, revolutionizing marine research and enabling future scientific discoveries.

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