In 1736, on a visit to the house of the botanist Johannes Burman (1706-1779), Clifford was introduced to an up-and-coming young Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, who was living and working there.

The database contains images of the butterfly specimens upon which Linnaeus based his descriptions. Linnaeus described 305 taxa under the name Papilio. Of these, 241 refer to currently valid butterfly ...

It was constructed by Linngeus. In 1745, Linnaeus had demonstrated to the Senate of the University his new thermometer, which in a letter to Sauvage he describes: “Ego primus fui, (mi parare ...

Carl Linnaeus (1707–88), father of modern taxonomy, was one of the most important scientists of the eighteenth century. This biography was written by Richard Pulteney (1730–1801), a physician and ...

This idea was formalised by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish biologist who in his 1735 book Systema Naturae popularised what is now known as Linnaean taxonomy. This was the idea that every organism could ...

3. Communication. One of the greatest impacts of Linnaeus's taxonomy was in facilitating communication in the scientific community. This is still important today, and there is currently no broadly ...

The list is released annually on May 23 in recognition of the birthday of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist who developed the modern system of taxonomy that we use to classify animals.

Linnaeus' original ideas have been adapted, but continue to be accepted and as new species are identified they can be fitted into the current classification system. As more scientific methods ...

CARL LINNAEUS: What's up, peeps? Oh do you like my relaxation tape? It's called sounds from the jungle.Welcome to my vlog, guys. All the way from my home town here in Sweden. I'm Carl Linnaeus ...

as well as tracking the exchange of knowledge.Central to this activity is the figure of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), the first truly scientific botanist. The transformation of people's everyday ...