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Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as Carolus a Linné.
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science · Swedish biologist and physician (1707–1778) · botanist · physician · autobiographer · biologist · mycologist · pteridologist · bryologist · zoologist · entomologist · ornithologist · also Carl Linnaeus, Carl Nilsson Linnæus, Carl von Linné, Carolus a Linné, Carolus Linnæus, Linnaeus
Born 23 May 1707 · Died 10 January 1778 · Q1043
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Philosophia Botanica (1751), aphorism 210. Trans. Frans A. Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans: The Spreading of their Ideas in Systematic Botany, 1735-1789 (1971), 80.
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“If I only knew how many teeth and of what kind every animal had, how many teats and where they were placed, I should perhaps be able to work out a perfectly natural system for the arrangement of all quadrupeds.”
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“Fundamenta fructificationis (1742). As quoted in John S. Wilkins (2009), "Species: A History of the Idea," University of California Press. p. 72”
“Variant translation: "I saw the infinite, all-knowing and all-powerful God from behind as he went away, and I grew dizzy. I followed his footsteps over nature's fields and saw everywhere an eternal wisdom and power, an inscrutable perfection." (As quoted in History of Science, by Peter Whitfield (2003), Scholastic Library Pub, p. 23.)”
“As translated in Michael John Petry (2001), in Nemesis Divina: (Edited and Translated with Explanatory Notes by M.J. Petry); Springer. p. 21”
“Letter to J. G. Gmelin (1747) as quoted by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)”
“Fauna Suecica (1746) as quoted by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)”
“Carl Linnaeus, Nemesis Divina (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996), ed. M. J. Petry.”
“Philosophia Botanica (1751), aphorism 210. Trans. Frans A. Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans: The Spreading of their Ideas in Systematic Botany, 1735-1789 (1971), 80.”
“Praelectiones (Lectures, 1744) quoted in Larson (1967:317)”
“Systema naturae (1735) (quoted in Ramsbottom 1938:197)”
“Praeludia sponsaliorum plantarum, 1729, первая публикация — 1908.”
Called this the "most important sign of Linnaeus's genius"
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“Also found in Life of Linnaeus (1858), by J. Van Voorst & Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, London. pp. 176-177.”
Linnaeus described himself as unargumentative, sensitive, quick, and uninterested in his personal appearance
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“Lachesis Lapponica: Or, A Tour in Laplan (1811), translated by James Edward Smith, Lulea, p. 238.”
Died 1778-01-10.
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“Die Natur macht keinen Sprung. Alle Pflanzen und Tiere bieten nach allen Seiten hin Affinitäten dar, wie ein Territorium auf der Landkarte." - Philosophia Botanica, Stockholm 1751. Nr. 77 books.google p. 27; zitiert nach faunistik.net”
“If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.”
“(Original latein.: "Natura non facit saltus. Plantae omnes utrinque affinitatem monstrant, uti Territorium in Mappa geographica.")”
“Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical location.”
“The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God.”
“We say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species.”
“Fundamenta Botanica (1736).”
“Original in Latin: Genera tot dicimus, quot similes constructae fructifications proserunt diversae Species naturales”
“The principle being accepted that all Species of one Genus have arisen from one mother through different fathers, it must be assumed”
“In der englischen Originalversion von Jurassic Park: "Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.”
“That in the beginning the Creator created of each natural Order only one plant with reproductive power.”
“That by their various mixings different plants have arisen which belong to the mother's natural order as they are similar to the mother with regard to their fructifications, and are, as it were, species of the order, i.e., genera.”
“Die Steine wachsen, die Pflanzen wachsen und leben, die Tiere wachsen, leben und empfinden.”
“We may assume that plants have arisen within the orders, i.e. by genera of one order, may mix with each other. In this was there will arise species that should be referred to the mother's genus as her daughters.”
“(Original latein.: '"Lapides crescunt. Vegetabilia crescunt & vivunt. Animalia crescunt, vivunt & sentiunt.") - Systema naturae, sive, Regna tria naturae systematice proposita per classes, ordines, genera, & species. (1735) Observationes in regna III. naturae. Observatio 15”
“Si ignoras el nombre de las cosas, desaparece también lo que sabes de ellas».[Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum].”
“Los minerales crecen; las plantas crecen y viven; los animales crecen, viven y sienten».[Lapides crescunt. Vegetabilia crescunt & vivunt. Animalia crescunt, vivunt & sentiunt].”
“La naturaleza no da saltos».[Natura non facit saltus. Plantae omnes utrinque affinitatem monstrant, uti Territorium in Mappa geographica"].”
“schwedischer Naturwissenschaftler”
“Human beings, having, above all creatures, received the power of reason... need to be aware where nature is unaware. Nature reaches its culmination in humans, but human consciousness has not its essence in itself or nature.”
“Philosophia Botanica (1751)”
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Polar Star (1753).
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Studied at University of Harderwijk, Doctor of Medicine (1735–1735).
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Studied at Uppsala University (1728).
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Studied at Lund University (1727).
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Born 1707-05-23.
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