Carl linnaeus early life

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Carl Linnaeus

Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)

Not to be confused with Carl Linnaeus the Younger or Karl Linnas.

"L.", "Linn.", and "Linnaeus" redirect here. For other uses, see L (disambiguation), Linn (disambiguation), and Linnaeus (disambiguation).

Carl Linnaeus^[a] (23 May 1707^{[note 1]} – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,^[3]^[b] 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".^[4] 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.

Linnaeus was the son of a curate^[5] and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of

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Scientist of the Day - Carl Linnaeus

“Aesculapius, Flora, Ceres, and Cupid honouring the Bust of Linnaeus,” hand-colored engraving by Caldwall after painting by Russel and Opic, in New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, by John Thornton, 1807 (Linda Hall Library)

Carl von Linné, a Swedish botanist and taxonomist better known as Carl Linnaeus, was born May 23, 1707. Linnaeus is one of the more familiar names in natural history, because he developed a taxonomic system for animals, in which they are divided, successively, into classes, orders, genera, and species, and because he proposed a binomial nomenclature system in which an animal or plant is identified by a two-part name, in Latin, drawn from its generic and specific names, as in Echinus europaeus (hedgehog) or Aquilegia canadensis (wild columbine). Both the taxonomic and the nomenclature systems were accepted by naturalists around the world and are still in use. We wrote a post on Linnaeus 7 years ago, discussing briefly his innovations in animal taxonomy and nomenclature, but we did

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For the Tyrannosaurus rex, as for Elvis and Jesus, being extremely dead has proved no obstacle to ongoing fame. Last seen some sixty-six million years ago, before an asteroid wiped out three-quarters of the life-forms on earth, it is nonetheless flourishing these days, thanks in large part to Michael Crichton, Steven Spielberg, and elementary-school children all over the world. In my experience, such children not only can rattle off the dinosaur’s vital statistics—fifteen feet tall, forty feet long, twelve thousand pounds—but will piously correct any misinformation advanced by their paleontologically passé elders. And here is the most surprising thing that all those ten-year-olds plus pretty much everyone else on the planet know about T. rex: the creature’s proper scientific name.

That name is itself properly called a binomen, the smallest unit in the vast system known as binomial nomenclature. You’ll remember the gist from basic biology: to eliminate any possible overlap or confusion, every species on the planet, whether extant or extinct, is assigned a full name, consisting