Linnaeus: The compleat naturalist
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Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae (1735) brought order to all recorded knowledge about plants and animals. He invented the system of giving living organisms two Latin names. Here is a lively account of Linnaeus the man-from poor student to professor of medicine and founder of the Royal Academy of Sciences-as well as his landmark scientific achievements, such as naming 9,000 plants, 828 shells, 2,100 insects and 477 fish.
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Linnaeus: The compleat naturalist, Wilfrid Blunt
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- 2004
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- Title
- Linnaeus: The compleat naturalist
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Wilfrid Blunt
- Publisher
- Frances Lincoln
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0711223629
- ISBN13
- 9780711223622
- Category
- Biographies and Thoughts
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- Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae (1735) brought order to all recorded knowledge about plants and animals. He invented the system of giving living organisms two Latin names. Here is a lively account of Linnaeus the man-from poor student to professor of medicine and founder of the Royal Academy of Sciences-as well as his landmark scientific achievements, such as naming 9,000 plants, 828 shells, 2,100 insects and 477 fish.