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Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné den yngre (Swedish; abbreviated Carl von Linné d. y.), or Linnaeus filius (Latin for Linnaeus the son; abbreviated L.fil. (outdated) or L.f. (modern) as a botanical authority; 20 January 1741 – 1 November 1783) was a Swedish naturalist.
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".
Dec 18, 2014 · In April 1781, three years after his father’s death, Carl Linnaeus the Younger set sail from Göteborg to London.
How did Linnaeus' classification of man influence scientific racism and human diversity? Explore his works, from Systema naturae to manuscripts, and the controversies they sparked.
Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné den yngre, or Linnaeus filius was a Swedish naturalist. His names distinguish him from his father, the pioneering taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).
Carl Linnaeus was born in 1707, the eldest of five children, in a place called Råshult, in Sweden. His father, called Nils, was a minister and keen gardener. He would often take his young son Carl into the garden with him and teach him about botany (the study of plants).
This translation of Carl Linnaeus’s sexual classification system for plants was published by the Botanical Society at Lichfield in 1787. Founded by Erasmus Darwin, the society had only three members: Darwin, the landowner Sir Brooke Boothby and John Jackson, proctor of Lichfield Cathedral.
