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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carl Linnaeus, today a largely unknown figure, is one of the giants of natural science. He devised the formal two-part naming system we use to classify all life forms. With Quentin Cooper is ...