Description
The man who gave every living thing its name. Before Carl Linnaeus, the natural world had no order and no names — only chaos. In this warm, vividly told biography, Sarah Knowles Bolton traces the life of the Swedish botanist behind Systema Naturae (1735) and the two-part Latin naming system scientists still use today.
We follow young Carl from a childhood roaming the meadows of Småland to daring botanical expeditions across Lapland and on to publication and fame. Bolton brings out the man behind the method: the tireless collector, the inspiring teacher, the devoted family man whose curiosity never faded.
Part of the classic tradition of nineteenth-century inspirational biography — Bolton’s Famous Men of Science was a beloved volume of its day — this is a book for young readers discovering the history of science, and for anyone who has ever wondered who decided a lion should be Panthera leo.
Before Carl Linnaeus, the natural world had no order and no names — only chaos. In this warm, vividly told biography, Sarah Knowles Bolton traces the life of the Swedish botanist who gave every living thing its proper name.
We follow young Carl from a childhood spent roaming the meadows of Småland to his daring botanical expeditions across Lapland, and on to the publication of Systema Naturae (1735), the work that introduced the two-part Latin naming system still used by scientists today. Bolton brings out the man behind the method: the tireless collector, the inspiring teacher, and the devoted family man whose curiosity never faded.
Part of the classic tradition of nineteenth-century inspirational biography — Bolton’s Famous Men of Science was a beloved volume of its day — this is a book for young readers discovering the history of science, and for anyone who has ever wondered who decided that a lion should be Panthera leo.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet