The Library's Linnaean collection is due chiefly to the efforts of Basil H Soulsby (1864–1933) who took charge of the Museum's General Library in 1920. By the time he retired 10 years later, Soulsby ...
The first division of living things in the classification system is to put them into one of five kingdoms. The five kingdoms are: The binomial system is important because it allows scientists to ...
SKEPTICISM IS A VIRTUE: That’s the slogan under which Brill’s Content, the media-watchdog magazine, wages war on bias, cant, and sloppiness in the press. The magazine can be tough on journalists whom ...
Carl Linnaeus developed the Latin two-word system for organising the natural world that is still in use today, writes ENDA O'DOHERTY The botanist Carolus Linnaeus was born Carl Nilsson Linnaeus in ...
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, as ...
In memory of Carl Linnaeus I would like to address the question of how European scholarship has developed in Japan, touching upon the work of people such as Carl Peter Thunberg, Linnaeus's disciple ...
Without a wife and a well-functioning household, Carl Linnaeus would have had difficulty becoming the prominent scientist that he was. Mastering social codes, like clothing and hosting guests for ...
Linnaeus' ordered universe has influenced many generations of prominent scientists, including Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...