Systema Naturae (originally in Latin written Systema Naturæ with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician...
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The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and...
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Great chain of being (redirect from Scala naturae)
animals and plants to minerals. The great chain of being (from Latin scala naturae 'ladder of being') is a concept derived from Plato, Aristotle (in his Historia...
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Carl Linnaeus (section Publishing of Systema Naturae)
where he studied and also published the first edition of his Systema Naturae in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor...
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plants, and animals) in his Systema Naturae (1735, 1st. Ed.). For plants, Linnaeus' orders in the Systema Naturae and the Species Plantarum were strictly...
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Lumen Naturae: Visions of the Abstract in Art and Mathematics is a book on connections between contemporary art, on the one hand, and mathematics and...
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taxonomy. With his major works Systema Naturae 1st Edition in 1735, Species Plantarum in 1753, and Systema Naturae 10th Edition, he revolutionized modern...
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The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae was founded in Naples in 1560 by Giambattista della Porta, a noted polymath. In Italian...
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Natural law (redirect from Jus naturae)
Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's De Legibus Naturae (Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom, 1999), 8. Parkin, 8. Richard Cumberland...
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Roger Bacon (redirect from Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae)
Operibus Artis et Naturae et de Nullitate Magiae), also known as On the Wonderful Powers of Art and Nature (De Mirabili Potestate Artis et Naturae), a likely-forged...
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Unowned property (redirect from Ferae naturae)
denied. Ferae naturae (lit. "wild animals of nature") is a Latin legal term referring to wild animals, in contrast to domitae naturae (lit. "tamed [animals]...
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Teratology (redirect from Lusus naturae)
literature referred to abnormalities of all kinds under the Latin term Lusus naturae (lit. "freak of nature"). As early as the 17th century, Teratology referred...
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Mundus subterraneus, quo universae denique naturae divitiae (very roughly "The subterranean world, all its riches") is a scientific textbook written by...
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Book of Nature (redirect from Liber naturae)
early Church Fathers appeared to use the idea of a book of nature, librum naturae, as part of a two-book theology: "Among the Fathers of the Church, explicit...
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Ali Puli (redirect from Centrum Naturae Concentratum)
alchemist and author. The most influential work attributed to him is Centrum Naturae Concentratum. This work was purported to have been written originally in...
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Vis medicatrix naturae (literally "the healing power of nature", and also known as natura medica) is the Latin rendering of the Greek Νόσων φύσεις ἰητροί...
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It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Daphnis nerii is a large hawk-moth found in wide areas of Africa, Asia...
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described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Anas albeola. The bufflehead was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish...
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based on academic models in Italy, it was originally named the Academia Naturae Curiosorum until 1687 when Emperor Leopold I raised it to an academy and...
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Leiden Guild of St. Luke (redirect from Ars Aemula Naturae)
Tekenacademie established in 1694, and the collective known as Ars Aemula Naturae (art competes with nature) established in 1799. Like other Dutch cities...
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Hans Ørberg (redirect from Lingua Latina secundum naturae rationem explicata)
While there he created a new course in Latin: LINGUA LATINA SECUNDUM NATURAE RATIONEM EXPLICATA published in 1955. Besides the author's name, there...
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organisms. However, this is an antiquated remnant of the obsolete scala naturae, and the term is generally considered to be unscientific. Botanists define...
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described the type as Canis pomeranus in his 1788 revision of Systema Naturae. Dogs of spitz type have been depicted on the tombs of the IVth dynasty...
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Aristotle's biology (redirect from Scala naturae (Aristotle))
from minerals to plants and animals, and on up to man, forming the scala naturae or great chain of being. His system had eleven grades, arranged according...
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The 12th edition of Systema Naturae was the last edition of Systema Naturae to be overseen by its author, Carl Linnaeus. It was published by Laurentius...
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were published (in this case, in the 10th edition of the book Systema Naturae). "Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)". The original name given by Linnaeus...
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Survey Bulletin, 24. pp. 1–86. Linnaeus, C. 1748. Systema naturae sistens regna tria naturae, in classes et ordines genera et species, redacta tabulisque...
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De Divisione Naturae ("The Division of Nature") is the title given by Thomas Gale to his edition (1681) of the work originally titled by 9th-century theologian...
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who standardized the modern taxonomy system beginning with his Systema Naturae in 1735. As the catalog of known species was increasing rapidly, it became...
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described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Like other small ducks such as the Eurasian teal, this species rises easily...
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