318 years ago today #CarlLinnaeus was born. The scholarly #biography The Man Who Organized Nature provides a full immersion in his life, revealing the polymath behind his reputation as the father of taxonomy.
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Carl Linnaeus’s Flower Clock
Today it is 247 years ago the world lost #CarlLinnaeus. The scholarly #biography The Man Who Organized Nature provides a full immersion in his life, revealing the polymath behind his reputation as the father of #taxonomy.
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#TIL
#TodayILearned
#CarlLinnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy is the representative example of Homo sapiens:
Wikipedia – “Linnaeus's remains constitute the type specimen for the species Homo sapiens following the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, since the sole specimen that he is known to have examined was himself.”
The Linnaean Herbarium (#herbarium code: LINN) is a historically significant #collection of over 13,000 dried plant specimens assembled by Swedish taxonomist #CarlLinnaeus (1707–1778). Housed at the #LinneanSocietyOfLondon since 1829, it forms the foundation of modern #botanicalNomenclature and serves as the primary reference for Linnaeus's 1753 work #SpeciesPlantarum, the starting point for modern #plantTaxonomy. The herbarium includes specimens from Linnaeus's botanical explorations.
(In the style of Game of Thrones)
Pliny of the North!
Pliny of the North!
Pliny of the North!
