Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) was a Swedish naturalist who became known as the father of taxonomy. Taxonomy, the practice of classification, creates order from the chaos of nature by allowing us to group ...

My youthful foray, long since abandoned, resulted in a classification scheme for 43 species of New Zealand sponge. It also gave me an appreciation for the towering achievement of Carl Linnaeus ...

Classification attempts to impose a hierarchy ... Over 200 years ago it was a Swedish scientist called Carl Linnaeus who first started the system of putting plants and animals into certain groups ...

In multiple areas of life, art and thought, the 18th century was an age of order, classification ... were “Systema Naturae,” by the Swede Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), and the “Histoire ...

CARL LINNAEUS: What's up ... It also helps that creating this classification has made me pretty popular. Let's just say my subscribers have certainly gone up since I devised it.

His parents wanted him to be a priest, but he rejected the collar to study natural order. Swede Carl Linnaeus, a medical doctor who treated syphilis, tried to organize the world's flora and fauna.

Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the study of categorizing and naming organisms, ...

In 1736, on a visit to the house of the botanist Johannes Burman (1706-1779), Clifford was introduced to an up-and-coming young Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, who was living and working there.