Born May 23, 1707 – Jan. 10, 1778.From the Linnean Society:Linnaeus was born in 1707 in Sweden. He headed an expedition to Lapland in 1732, travelling 4,600 miles and crossing the Scandinavian Peninsula by foot to the Arctic Ocean. On the journey he discovered a hundred botanical species. He undertook his medical degree in 1735 in the Netherlands. In 1735, he published Systema Naturae, his classification of plants based on their sexual parts...
January 10th marks the passing of Carolus Linnaeus. Linnaeus was a Swedish biologist who introduced the taxonomy scheme used for naming plants and animals. Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature names an animal ...Read Full Post
A community portal about Carolus Linnaeus with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linne,, was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. He is known as the " father of modern taxonomy." He is also...more
A community portal about Carolus Linnaeus with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linne,, was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. He is known as the " father of modern taxonomy." He is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.