1707–1778 Swedish naturalist whose classification scheme became the basis of modern taxonomy
Keywords: classification; history; botany; human origins; Bible
Linnaeus, Carl (Linné)
Janet Browne, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: January 2006
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002503
| Further Reading | |
| book Blunt W (2001) Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist, rev edn. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | |
| book Broberg G (ed.) (1980) Linnaeus: Progress and Prospects in Linnaean Research. Pittsburg: Hunt Botanical Library. | |
| Cain AJ (1958) Logic and memory in Linnaeus’ system of taxonomy. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 169: 144–163. | |
| book Frangsmyr T (ed.) (1983) Linnaeus: The Man and His Work. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
| book Freer S (trans) (2003) Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Koerner L (1999) Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
| Schiebinger L (1993) Why mammals are called mammals: gender politics in eighteenth-century natural history. American Historical Review 98: 382–411. | |
| book Smith JE (ed.) (1821) A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus and Other Naturalists. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. | |
| book Stafleu FA (1971) Linnaeus and the Linnaeans: The Spreading of their Ideas in Systematic Botany, 1735–1789. Utrecht: Oosthoek. | |
| Winsor MP (2001) Cain on Linnaeus: the scientist-historian as unanalysed entity. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32C(2): 239–254. | |
