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Linné married major Carl Fredrik Bergencrantz in 1764 and had two children. However, she left her husband and moved back with her parents a couple of years after her wedding because she had been subjected to spousal abuse: she died at the age of 39, and her children also died before adulthood. Her mother blamed her early death upon the abuse ...
Carl Linnaeus. The bibliography of Carl Linnaeus includes academic works about botany, zoology, nomenclature and taxonomy written by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). Linnaeus laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature and is known as the father of modern taxonomy. His most famous works are Systema ...
Nov 6, 2023 · As a result, the translation of this biography of Linnaeus, first published in Swedish in 2019, has been very much anticipated. Carl Linnaeus was born in 1707 and died in 1778. His life spanned the 18 th century, and he was a contemporary of the great Enlightenment thinkers. Both Voltaire (1694–1778) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778 ...
Carl Linnaeus ( / lɪˈniːəs /; [ 1] 23 May [ note 1] 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné[ 2] ( Template:IPA-sv ), was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy ...
Jun 2, 2014 · Format and content of Linnaeus's paper slips. Linnaeus's paper slips are today kept at the Linnean Society in London, along with other manuscripts of Linnaeus, his personal library, and his specimen collections. 49 The slips are of uniform dimensions – 13×7.5 cm – and approach the size of future custom-made index cards.
James Edward Smith (2 December 1759–17 March 1828) was the founder of the Linnean Society and one of the one of the most pre-eminent British botanists of his age. Following the death of Carl Linnaeus the younger (1741–1783), Smith purchased the collections of Carl Linnaeus Snr. for 1,000 guineas. In 1788, Smith founded the Linnean Society ...
It is the 250-year-old legacy of a Swedish naturalist’s quest to discover God’s handiwork in nature. Image courtesy of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1798) was far from the first thinker to try to classify life. Aristotle, for example, argued that each species had a unique form and could be classified by some ...
