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Sep 19, 2024 · Learn about the life and achievements of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who created the binomial nomenclature and the hierarchical classification of organisms. Explore his Systema Naturae, the first edition of his influential work that introduced the sexual system of plant classification.
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- Swedish naturalist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to crea...
- Carolus Linnaeus was born on May 23, 1707, in Råshult, Småland, Sweden.
- Carolus Linnaeus’s early interest in botany was channeled by a teacher at Växjö gymnasium, in Kronoberg, southern Sweden. In 1727 Linnaeus began hi...
3 days ago · In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, published in 1758, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus described 554 species of bird and gave each a binomial name. Linnaeus had first included birds in the 6th edition of his Systema Naturae, which was published in 1748. In it he listed 260 species arranged into 51 genera, in turn divided amongst six ...
3 days ago · In the first edition of Systema Naturae, Linnaeus subdivided the human species into four varieties: "Europæus albesc[ens]" (whitish European), "Americanus rubesc[ens]" (reddish American), "Asiaticus fuscus" (tawny Asian) and "Africanus nigr[iculus]" (blackish African).
2 days ago · The famous Swedish 18th century naturalist Carl Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae (1735) described a fabulous genus Microcosmus a "body covered with various heterogeneous [other bits]" (Latin: Corpus variis heterogeneis tectum).
1 day ago · MilliBase is a global taxonomic database, managed by a group of diplopod experts that aims to capture all described millipede, pauropod and symphylan species with the associated literature, the authorities and original descriptions of species, genera and all units of higher classification.
Sep 19, 2024 · In contrast to earlier attempts by other botanists at generic definition, which proceeded by a set of arbitrary divisions, Genera Plantarum presented a system based on what Linnaeus called the “natural characters” of genera—morphological descriptions of all the parts of flower and fruit.
Sep 19, 2024 · Other disciplines in which Linnaeus exerted some lasting influence included geology, mineralogy, entomology (through the various editions of Systema Naturae), pathology (by the classification of diseases laid down in Genera Morborum [1763; “Genera of Diseases”]), pharmacology (as a result of Materia Medica [1749; “The Materials of Healing ...
