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.

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 ...

The frontispiece of the first edition of “Systema Naturae” (1735) depicts the botanist Carl Linnaeus as an Adam-like figure, liberally dispensing names to the newly generated creatures of the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms ...

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 ...

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.