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Description for Linnaeus
Hardback. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is the man who gave living organisms two Latin names. This book gives a portrait of Linnaeus the man, charting his rise from a poor student at Lund University to Professor of Medicine at Uppsala and a founder of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Num Pages: 288 pages, More than 200 color illus. BIC Classification: BGH; PST. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 248 x 194 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1114.
The life of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the man who gave living organisms two Latin names, is celebrated afresh in this newly revised and magnificently illustrated edition of the definitive biography. In his native Sweden, Linnaeus is revered by children as the "Prince of Flowers" and by adults as a great biologist, the author of classics on natural history, and, owing to his impassioned study of the sex life of plants, as history's foremost "botanical pornographer." Linnaeus was of pivotal importance in the Age of Enlightenment. Though an adventurous traveler, keen collector, zoologist, and geologist, he loved botany most of all. ... Read more
The life of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the man who gave living organisms two Latin names, is celebrated afresh in this newly revised and magnificently illustrated edition of the definitive biography. In his native Sweden, Linnaeus is revered by children as the "Prince of Flowers" and by adults as a great biologist, the author of classics on natural history, and, owing to his impassioned study of the sex life of plants, as history's foremost "botanical pornographer." Linnaeus was of pivotal importance in the Age of Enlightenment. Though an adventurous traveler, keen collector, zoologist, and geologist, he loved botany most of all. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press Group Ltd United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691096360
SKU
V9780691096360
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About Wilfrid Blunt
Wilfrid Blunt was Senior Drawing Master at Eton College. An Associate of the Royal College of Art and a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he authored a number of biographies and books on European art and botany. His The Art of Botanical Illustration has become a standard work of reference. He died in 1987. William T. Stearn was ... Read more
Reviews for Linnaeus
"This evocative account of Linnaeus's life and achievements has become a natural history classic. Wilfrid Blunt beautifully captures Linnaeus's zest for botany and its key place in the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century, showing how the Linnean system was used by plant explorers from America to Japan to Lapland and helped establish the foundation of modern botanical science—as well ... Read more