Linnaeus's Systema Naturae charts life. Swedish botanist Carl von Linne, writing under the Latin name Linnaeus, attempts to classify all life on Earth. He publishes the first edition of Systema ...

Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) was a Swedish naturalist who became ... plant species Linnaeus discovered on his expedition to Lapland. With the publication of Systema Naturae (1735), Linnaeus introduced a ...

In multiple areas of life, art and thought, the 18th century was an age of order, classification, laws, formulas, symmetry and grids. Everywhere you look, you find attempts to frame and categorize ...