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Download or read book Linnaeus written by Lisbet Koerner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on letters, poems, notebooks, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koerner tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, Linnaeus also recounts for the first time Linnaeus' grand and bizarre economic projects: to teach tea, saffron, and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and to domesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals. Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within the borders of his family home by growing cash crops in Northern Europe. Koerner shows us the often surprising ways he embarked on this project. Her narrative goes against the grain of Linnaean scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his time. At the same time, his attempts to organize a state economy according to principles of science prefigured an idea that has become one of the defining features of modernity. Meticulously researched, and based on archival data, Linnaeus will be of compelling interest to historians of the Enlightenment, historians of economics, and historians of science. But this engaging, often funny, and sometimes tragic portrait of a great man will be valued by general readers as well.
Download or read book Flora Lapponica written by Carl von Linné and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Organized Nature by : Gunnar Broberg
Download or read book The Man Who Organized Nature written by Gunnar Broberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus’s life and work Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals. Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognizable abbreviation “L” is used to mark classifications originally made by Linnaeus. This biography, by the leading authority on Linnaeus, offers a vivid portrait of Linnaeus’s life and work. Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished sources—including diaries and personal correspondence—as well as new research, it presents revealing and original accounts of his family life, the political context in which he pursued his work, and his eccentric views on sexuality. The Man Who Organized Nature describes Linnaeus’s childhood in a landscape of striking natural beauty and how this influenced his later work. Linnaeus’s Lutheran pastor father, knowledgeable about plants and an enthusiastic gardener, helped foster an early interest in botany. The book examines the political connections that helped Linnaeus secure patronage for his work, and untangles his ideas about sexuality. These were not, as often assumed, an attempt to naturalize gender categories but more likely reflected the laissez-faire attitudes of the era. Linnaeus, like many other brilliant scientists, could be moody and egotistical; the book describes his human failings as well as his medical and scientific achievements. Written in an engaging and accessible style, The Man Who Organized Nature—one of the only biographies of Linnaeus to appear in English—provides new and fascinating insights into the life of one of history’s most consequential and enigmatic scientists.
Book Synopsis The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature by : William Thomas Lowndes
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Name of Plants by : Sandra Knapp
Download or read book In the Name of Plants written by Sandra Knapp and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly illustrated meeting with thirty plants and their inspiring namesakes Shakespeare famously asserted that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” and that’s as true for common garden roses as it is for the Megacorax, a genus of evening primroses. Though it may not sound like it, the Megacorax was actually christened in honor of famed American botanist Peter Raven, its name a play on the Latin words for “great raven.” In this lush and lively book, celebrated botanist Sandra Knapp explores the people whose names have been immortalized in plant genera, presenting little-known stories about both the featured plants and their eponyms alongside photographs and botanical drawings from the collections of London’s Natural History Museum. Readers will see familiar plants in a new light after learning the tales of heroism, inspiration, and notoriety that led to their naming. Take, for example, nineteenth-century American botanist Alice Eastwood, after whom the yellow aster—Eastwoodia elegans—is named. Eastwood was a pioneering plant collector who also singlehandedly saved irreplaceable specimens from the California Academy of Sciences during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Or more recently, the fern genus Gaga, named for the pop star and actress Lady Gaga, whose verdant heart-shaped ensemble at the 2010 Grammy Awards bore a striking resemblance to a giant fern gametophyte. Knapp’s subjects range from Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin (Darwinia), and legendary French botanist Pierre Magnol—who lends his name to the magnolia tree—to US founding figures like George Washington (Washingtonia) and Benjamin Franklin (Franklinia). Including granular details on the taxonomy and habitats for thirty plants alongside its vibrant illustrations, this book is sure to entertain and enlighten any plant fan.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by : Smithsonian Institution
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences by : Washington Academy of Sciences
Download or read book Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences written by Washington Academy of Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of John Martyn ... and of Thomas Martyn ... Professors of Botany in the University of Cambridge by :
Download or read book Memoirs of John Martyn ... and of Thomas Martyn ... Professors of Botany in the University of Cambridge written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Sir Charles Linnæus ... by : Dietrich Johann Heinrich Stöver
Download or read book The Life of Sir Charles Linnæus ... written by Dietrich Johann Heinrich Stöver and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Sir Charles Linnaeus by : Dietrich Heinrich Stoever
Download or read book The Life of Sir Charles Linnaeus written by Dietrich Heinrich Stoever and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan by :
Download or read book The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c.
Download or read book American Journal of Botany written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary.
Book Synopsis Arctic Bibliography by : Arctic Institute of North America
Download or read book Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guide to the Literature of Botany. Being a Classified Selection of Botanical Works, Including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus' by : Benjamin Daydon Jackson
Download or read book Guide to the Literature of Botany. Being a Classified Selection of Botanical Works, Including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus' written by Benjamin Daydon Jackson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Book Synopsis Guide to the Literature of Botany by : Benjamin Daydon Jackson
Download or read book Guide to the Literature of Botany written by Benjamin Daydon Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
