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    Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised...
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    Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné den yngre (Swedish; abbreviated Carl von Linné d. y.), or Linnaeus filius (Latin...
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    of Carl Linnaeus has been ongoing for over two centuries. Celebrated for his scientific work, Linnaeus was knighted and granted nobility (as Carl von...
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    bibliography of Carl Linnaeus includes academic works about botany, zoology, nomenclature and taxonomy written by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)...
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    (subscription required) "This is Linnaeus University". Linnaeus University. 24 February 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2024. "Symbol". Linnaeus University. Archived from...
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    naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature. In it, Linnaeus introduced...
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  • Swedish Linnaeus Society (Swedish Svenska Linnésällskapet) is a Swedish learned society devoted to the study of the 18th century naturalist Carl Linnaeus. It...
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    1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling...
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  • Vermes (section Linnaeus)
    is an obsolete taxon used by Carl Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for non-arthropod invertebrate animals. In Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, the Vermes...
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    (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his Systema Naturae (1735) and subsequent works. In the taxonomy of Linnaeus there are three kingdoms...
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  • former summer home of Carl Linnaeus and his family. Carl Linnaeus was a scientist and professor at Uppsala University. Linnaeus gradually turned the estate...
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  • interpreted Linnaeus' statements as reflecting a view that "Europeans' superiority resides in "culture", and that the decisive factor in Linnaeus' taxa was...
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    Species Plantarum (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known...
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    botanist Carl Linnaeus. The expeditions took place during the latter half of the 18th century and the students were designated 'apostles' by Linnaeus. Many...
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    nomenclature is due to Swedish botanist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). It was in Linnaeus's 1753 Species Plantarum that he began consistently using...
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    was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Forsskål was born in Helsinki, now in Finland but then a part of Sweden...
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    names proposed by Clerck in Svenska Spindlar (which were adopted by Carl Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae in 1758 with only minor modifications) had traditionally...
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    Systema Naturae (category Carl Linnaeus)
    of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy. Although the system...
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    Great auk (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
    great auk was one of the 4,400 animal species formally described by Carl Linnaeus in his eighteenth-century work Systema Naturae, in which it was given...
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  • Linnaeus's flower clock was a garden plan hypothesized by Carl Linnaeus that would take advantage of several plants that open or close their flowers at...
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    zoologist Carl Linnaeus on 29 June 1771, offering to send him "a few Birds & insects" collected by her brother Ashton near New York. Linnaeus thanked her...
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    temperate Eurasia from Spain to China. The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. As of September 2021[update], Plants of the World Online accepted...
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    Dog (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
    classified as separate species. In 1758, the Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus assigned the genus name Canis (which is the Latin word for "dog") to...
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    Sara Elisabeth Moræa (category Carl Linnaeus)
    Moræa; 26 April 1716 – 20 April 1806) was married to Carl Linnaeus and was mother to Carl Linnaeus the Younger and Elisabeth Christina von Linné. She was...
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    Linnéa (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
    scientist Carl Linnaeus, who was ennobled as Carl von Linné later in life. Primarily, people have named their children in his honor; Linnaeus and Linné...
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    formalized botanical taxonomies were laid out in the 18th century by Carl Linnaeus. Anthropologists have observed that taxonomies are generally embedded...
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  • phylum), class, order, family, genus, and species. The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus is regarded as the founder of the current system of taxonomy, as he...
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    Tiger (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
    the connection between the tiger and the river is doubted. In 1758, Carl Linnaeus described the tiger in his work Systema Naturae and gave it the scientific...
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    Creatonotos gangis (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
    arctiine moth in South East Asia and Australia. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum. Adults have white hindwings and brown...
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    Linnaea (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
    twinflower (sometimes written twin flower). This plant was a favourite of Carl Linnaeus, founder of the modern system of binomial nomenclature, after whom the...
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