When it’s someone’s birthday it is nice to give presents, or a flower. Perhaps a whole boquet of roses. But if the birthday is a really big round number, like 300, and the birthday boy is the one who ...
God, the Bible tells us, gave Adam the job of naming the animals. But it was Carl Linnaeus who figured out a good way to do it. Linnaeus, also known as Carolus Linnaeus or Carol von Linne, was the ...
Botanists have plenty of heroes. One of our best known, of course, is Charles Linnaeus, the “Father of Plant Taxonomy,” who lived and worked in Sweden. His most memorable publication is probably a ...
He’s more influential than ABBA, more famous than Björn Borg. On 23 May, Sweden will celebrate the 300th birthday of its most illustrious son: Carolus Linnaeus. The naturalist practically ...
Last spring I traveled with my husband, Peter, to Uppsala, an ancient city northwest of Stockholm on the gulf of Ekoln, one of the vast, inland-reaching bays of Sweden’s Lake Mälaren. Known for its ...
Botanists have plenty of heroes. One of our best known, of course, is Charles Linnaeus, the “Father of Plant Taxonomy,” who lived and worked in Sweden. His most memorable publication, probably, is a ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I originally published this post on May 23, ...
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