Carl Linnaeus introduced the systematic classification upon which all subsequent natural history has been built. This Nature web focus brings together a range of material celebrating the ...

Linnaeus was an avid collector and classifier of 'animals, vegetables and minerals'. ... The book is a work of art. Even non-botanists will be seduced by this inviting package.

Broberg, a widely admired authority on Linnaeus, died in 2022. “The Man Who Organized Nature,” capably translated by Anna Paterson, is his last book, the summation of a lifetime of research.

Linnaeus Link is a collaboration between The Natural History Museum, the British Library, Danmarks Natur- og Laegevidenskabelige Bibliotek, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Kungl.

Linnaeus grew up in rural Småland, southern Sweden, the son of a Lutheran priest who enjoyed gardening. Young Carl loved flowers, but his parents intended him for the ministry.

And once Linnaeus had a system for plants, he started expanding it to organize all nature. In 1735, when he was just 28, he published a pamphlet called Systema Naturae.

Linnaeus and Buffon saw the world differently: “To Linnaeus’s mind, nature was a noun. All species remained as created during Genesis…To Buffon, nature was a verb, a swirl of constant change.” ...