Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the ...

His parents wanted him to be a priest, but he rejected the collar to study natural order. Swede Carl Linnaeus, a medical doctor who treated syphilis, tried to organize the world's flora and fauna.

De-centring and re-centring Linnaeus / Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stephane Van Damme -- Notebooks, files and slips: Carl Linnaeus and his disciples at work / Isabelle Charmantier -- What is a ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on Earth. Now celebrated as the father of modern taxonomy, he developed the ...