Gunnar Broberg’s biography dutifully accompanies Linnaeus every step of the way, trekking through his life for four-hundred-plus pages. These are not, unfortunately, a pleasure to read.

Very early in life, Linnaeus seemed to have developed a liking for plants and flowers, ... Sweden, on May 23, 1707, Carl Linnaeus went on to receive much of his education at Uppsala University.

Carl Linnaeus, born 300 years ago, brought order to nature's blooming, buzzing confusion. ... He kept adding to it throughout his life, and when the 13th edition was published in 1770, ...

Roberts structures his story as a double biography of Buffon and his Swedish rival, Carl Linnaeus. Born in the same year, 1707, Buffon and Linnaeus were “exact contemporaries, and polar ...

Some may recall that this convention was invented by Carl Linnaeus, a Swede. Classifying nature was a preoccupation of natural historians in the 18th century, and Linnaeus’s way won out.

This enlightening history by science writer Roberts (A Sense of the World) explores research conducted by 18th-century naturalists Carl Linnaeus and George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who competed ...

For better and worse, two 18th-century scientists shaped how we see nature ‘Every Living Thing,’ by Jason Roberts, explains and evaluates the work of the biologists Carl Linnaeus and Comte de ...

D eep beneath the headquarters of the Linnean Society, in Burlington House on Piccadilly, is a bomb-proof room built at the height of the Cold War to protect the collections of the Swedish naturalist ...

Alumnus Jason Roberts (Cowell ’89, literature) won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for his biography Every Living Thing. “I’ve lately been drawn to write what I call human scale history, nonfiction narratives ...