2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), a notable Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician. Linnaeus's passion for order saw him develop a standardised binomial ...

In memory of Carl Linnaeus I would like to address the question of how European scholarship has developed in Japan, touching upon the work of people such as Carl Peter Thunberg, Linnaeus's disciple ...

Carl Linnaeus developed the Latin two-word system for organising the natural world that is still in use today, writes ENDA O'DOHERTY The botanist Carolus Linnaeus was born Carl Nilsson Linnaeus in ...

Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) was a Swedish botanist who devised the binomial classification system, a two-part naming system to identify, classify and name organisms from bacteria to elephant. Carl ...

With his passport and a letter of recommendation from the Royal Society of Science in his pocket, Linnaeus started his Lapland expedition on 'Friday, 12 May 1732 at 11 o'clock'. It lasted about 10 ...

Born in 1707 in Råshult Sweden, Carl Linnaeus was a botanist, physician and zoologist. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Carl ...