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13 unusual facts about Carl Linnaeus


Archiater

In neighbouring Sweden, the title of archiater was bestowed on the great botanist Carl Linnaeus as an honour.

Beckenham Place Park

Cator, reputed to be friends with Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and son-in-law of Peter Collinson, introduced many exotic tree species and a lake, which is now dry.

Dog type

In 1758, Carl Linnaeus in Systema naturae named the domestic dog “familiaris” and added other dog classifications or species.

Expedition Linné

Expedition Linné is a 2007 documentary film made for the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus.

Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach

The Society gave Frederick the nickname der Verwandte ("the Kinsman") and the motto the grape and as his emblem the common grape hyacinth (Hyacinthus botryoides L.).

Linneus, Missouri

Originally Linnville, its name was changed to honor Carl Linnaeus in 1840.

Marly-la-Ville

He translated and published the works of Carl Linnaeus thus introducing Linnaean nomenclature in France.

Men, Microscopes, and Living Things

Shippen traces the history of biological thought beginning with Aristotle and followed by Pliny, Linnaeus, Cuvier, Lamarck, Darwin, and several others.

Pierce-Klingle Mansion

Joshua Pierce built the house in 1823 and named it Linnaean Hill after the Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist.

Salvia pentstemonoides

The plant was originally named after an early spelling of Penstemon by Carl Linnaeus that added an extra "t".

Strähle construction

Stråhle published his construction as a "new invention, to determine the Temperament in tuning, for the pitches of the clavichord and similar instruments" in an article that appeared in the fourth volume of the proceedings of the newly formed Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which included articles by prominent scholars and Academy members Polhem, Carl Linnaeus, Carl Fredrik Mennander, Augustin Ehrensvärd, and Samuel Klingenstierna.

The Biographer's Tale

During the course of his research he fails to learn much about the actual subject of his biography, but discovers a lot of Destry-Scholes' unpublished research about real historical figures Carl Linnaeus, Francis Galton and Henrik Ibsen.

Tournefortia

Later, Carl Linnaeus changed the name to Tournefortia, on the grounds that Tournefort was virtually unknown by his family name outside France.


Agriculture in Sweden

Swedish scientists also gave attention to the improvement of agriculture, with botanist Carl Linnaeus and agricultural chemist Johan Gottschalk Wallerius as the foremost representatives.

Botanischer Garten der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Its site, about 1 hectare in size, was patterned on Carl Linnaeus' garden in Uppsala.

Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli

Albrecht von Haller was at one time the scretary and president of it, and in its long history it had contact with people like Carl Linnaeus, Voltaire, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Jean-Marie Roland, vicomte de la Platière, Gaetano Filangieri, and Arthur Young.

Olof Tempelman

But he eventually immersed himself in science, following in the likes of Carl Linnaeus, Anders Celsius, and Samuel Klingenstierna.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Academy was founded on 2 June 1739 by naturalist Carl Linnaeus, mercantilist Jonas Alströmer, mechanical engineer Mårten Triewald, civil servants Sten Carl Bielke and Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm, and politician Anders Johan von Höpken.

Suberites ficus

Linnaeus in 1767, Esper in 1794 and Lamarck in 1814 also used the name but it was not until Johnston described the spicules as well as the sponge which he named Halichondria ficus in 1842 that it became clear what sponge was being described.

The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species

Using the four classifications established by Carl Linnaeus (hermaphroditic, monoecious, dioecious, polygamous), Darwin concentrated on two divisions of the hermaphroditic class, namely the cleistogamic and heterostyled.