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	Learn more about Carolus Linnaeus in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During this time Linnaeus became convinced that in the stamens and pistils of flowers lay the basis for the classification of plants, and he wrote a short work on the subject that earned him the position of adjunct professor.
		Linnaeus named taxa in ways that personally struck him as common-sensical; for example, human beings are Homo sapiens "wise man", but he also described a second human species, Homo troglodytes (or Homo nocturnus - "cave-dwelling man" or "nocturnal man"), by which he seems to have meant the only-recently described chimpanzee).
		Linnaeus was one of the founders of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ca/carolus_linnaeus.html (692 words)

	Carolus Linnaeus - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Linnaeus was born into a religious family in a small town in rural Småland.
		In 1741 Linnaeus was appointed professor of practical medicine at Uppsala, a position he exchanged the following year for the chair of botany, dietetics, and materia medica.
		Linnaeus also created a taxonomic scheme that relied only upon these sexual parts, using the stamen to determine the class and the pistil to determine the order.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761557251__1/Carolus_Linnaeus.html (608 words)

	Carl Linnaeus
		Linnaeus went to the Netherlands in 1735, promptly finished his medical degree at the University of Harderwijk, and then enrolled in the University of Leiden for further studies.
		Linnaeus continued to revise his Systema Naturae, which grew from a slim pamphlet to a multivolume work, as his concepts were modified and as more and more plant and animal specimens were sent to him from every corner of the globe.
		Although Linnaeus was not the first to use binomials, he was the first to use them consistently, and for this reason, Latin names that naturalists used before Linnaeus are not usually considered valid under the rules of nomenclature.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/linnaeus.html (2236 words)

	Carolus Linnaeus Summary
		Linnaeus realized that new plants were being discovered faster than their morphological relationships could be established, and he decided to abandon for a while the attempt to achieve a natural classification.
		Linnaeus organized ecology around the balance of nature concept, which he named the "economy of nature." He emphasized the interrelationships in nature and was one of the first naturalists to describe food chains.
		Linnaeus is the only botanist currently referred to by a single initial: L. (Previously, the abbreviation assigned was Linn.) In botany, the scientific authority for a botanical name is listed immediately after the name.
	www.bookrags.com /Carolus_Linnaeus (8141 words)

	Linnaeus Plant Sciences Inc.,Press Release:- Non-polluting Motor Oil in Crop Plants.
		Linnaeus Plant Sciences Inc. holds a key part of the solution - a solution that is based on the outstanding lubricating properties of castor oil and the oil's unique applicability to a wide range of industrial applications.
		Linnaeus is a privately held corporation whose mission is to commercialize innovative agricultural biotechnology.
		Linnaeus is the exclusive licensee of the castor gene, the gene responsible for giving castor oil its unique properties.
	www.linnaeus.net /press_release.htm (541 words)

	Linné on line - Linnaeus as an ornithologist
		Linnaeus was very proud of his knowledge of ornithology, but posterity has been more skeptical, and it is easy to find ornithological errors in his writings, especially his juvenalia.
		The corresponding figure for Linnaeus is hard to determine exactly, but it is a matter of 18 species at the most, and in only three cases can we be certain that Linnaeus was the first: the avocet, the hawk owl, and the hawfinch.
		Linnaeus also lays out what a species description of a bird should look like and gives definitions of what is meant by ‘family’ and ‘order.’ Further, he touches briefly on the great utility of birds in nature, rounding off with the utility of birds to humankind.
	www.linnaeus.uu.se /online/history/ornitolog.html (1372 words)

	Carolus Linnaeus - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His father, a minister with a passion for plants, had a large garden through which he introduced his son to botany.
		Linnaeus discovered problems in the systematic arrangement for botany and began to sketch his own classification method as early as 1730.
		Linnaeus also made enormous contributions to animal taxonomy.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557251/Linnaeus_Carolus.html (552 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Carolus Linnaeus
		Linnaeus received his degree in medicine from the University of Uppsala, and he also studied at the University of Lund.
		Upon graduation from Uppsala, Linnaeus was appointed botany lecturer at the university.
		Linnaeus was granted a Swedish patent of nobility in 1761.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Linnaeus,Carolus.html (225 words)

	Carl Linnaeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Carl Linnaeus, or Carl von Linné as he later was called, was born on the 13 of May 1707 at Råshult in the parish of Stenbrohult in Småland, Sweden.
		In 1749 Linnaeus was appointed as principal at the University of Uppsala.
		Linnaeus was dubed in 1753 by king Adolph Fredrik to knight of Nordstjärneordern as the first civilian in Sweden.
	www.nrm.se /fbo/hist/linnaeus/linnaeus.html.en (3358 words)

	Carl Linnaeus 1707-1778
		Linnaeus took the comparison a long way, to the extent indeed of seeing the common marigold (Calendula officinalis) as a plant practising “necessary polygamy” with “the married females barren, the concubines fertile”; in other words, the ray florets of the flower head produced seeds but the disc florets did not.
		Linnaeus, anticipating the methods of later student fund-raisers, drew up a memorandum emphasising both the desirability of a naturalist visiting Lapland and the attributes requisite in such a person, from which it would appear that the most suitable one for the task would be no other than Linnaeus himself.
		Linnaeus made first President of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, of which he was a founder member; appointed physician to the Admiralty; on 26 June 1739 married Sara Lisa; Tessin made leader of the Hats political party, Marshal of Swedish Diet.
	linnaeus.c18.net /Doc/lbio.php (4080 words)

	BOT 300H1S - Systematic Botany - Linnaeus' contributions
		Linnaeus spent the years 1735-1738 in Holland getting a medical degree there, publishing the botanical manuscripts he had prepared in Sweden, meeting other European botanists, and generally establishing himself as a botanist of great promise.
		Although Linnaeus emphasized flower and fruit features both in the artificial sexual system and in defining natural genera, he admitted that to define natural families it was necessary to resort to vegetative features (Judd et al.
		Linnaeus revolutionized the way in which scientific names are applied to plants, fungi, and animals in his 1753 publication, Species plantarum.
	www.botany.utoronto.ca /courses/bot300/300Linn.html (1029 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Linnaeus, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Linnaeus, Carolus, 1707-78, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, considered the founder of the binomial system of nomenclature and the originator of modern scientific classification of plants and animals.
		Influenced by the methods of Linnaeus, under whom he studied, he devised a system of classification of insects based on mouth structure.
		Linnaeus and Q Mark Unite to Help Health Plans With HEDIS Reporting.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Linnaeus, (642 words)

	Linnean.org: Carl Linnaeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Linnaeus was born in 1707, the son of a Lutheran clergyman, at Rashult in Sweden.
		He invented the name Linnaeus in allusion to a large and ancient tree of the small-leaved linden (Tilia cordata Miller, T.europaea L. in part), known in the Småland dialect as "linn", which grew on the family property known in the 17th century as Linnegard.
		Linnaeus observed over a number of years that certain plants constantly opened and closed their flowers at particular times of the day, these times varying from species to species.
	linnean.org /index.php?id=47 (1221 words)

	Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) - PlantExplorers.com™
		Linnaeus attended the University of Lund, where he studied medicine for a year before moving on to the larger University at Uppsala.
		Doctor Celsius, botanist and priest, happened upon young Linnaeus in the University's botanical garden, and was taken with his knowledge and interest in plants.
		Linnaeus was the first to practice this relatively new science.
	www.plantexplorers.com /explorers/biographies/carl-linnaeus.html (1050 words)

	Carl von Linnés education
		Linnaeus economy was soon in bottom with a wretched and a poor live as a result.
		Linnaeus was now, analog with his studies, informator to professor Rudbecks sons, and got a lot of information by the professor, who also had done a travel to Lappland – the rich country!
		Linnaeus wanted to search valuable things so that he can pay for the costly foreign doctors degree he was planning.
	www.linnaeus.nu /eng/doktor.htm (1708 words)

	Carolus Linnaeus
		Although Linnaeus was not the first to use binomials, he was the first to use them consistently, and for this reason, names that naturalists used before Linnaeus are not usually considered valid under the rules of nomenclature.
		Yet to Linnaeus, the process of generating new species was not open-ended; whatever new species might have arisen from the primae speciei, the original species in the Garden of Eden, were still part of God's plan for creation, for they had always potentially been present.
		Linnaeus noticed the struggle for survival -- he once called Nature a "butcher's block" -- but considered it necessary to maintain the balance of nature, part of the Divine Order.
	users.skynet.be /spinnen/OldBooks/Linnaeus/linnaeus.html (1602 words)

	Linnaeus
		Linnaeus acquired his doctors degree in a university in Holland, with finanical help from his future wife.
		When he made Linnaeus the manager of this garden Linnaeus wrote Systema Naturae which means the system of nature, and Genera Plantarum which means species of plants.
		Linnaeus wrote more than one hundred and eighty works before and after he was named the Professor of Uppsala in 1742, which was were Linnaeus spent the rest of his life.
	projects.sd3.k12.nf.ca /scibios/linnaeus.htm (441 words)

	The Linnaean Correspondence. Documentation. Presentation
		It is a pity that Linnaeus himself never took copies of his own letters, prevented from so doing by too much work.” Writing in the third person, this is how Linnaeus described his own correspondence in one of his autobiographies.
		Towards the end of the nineteenth century, interest in Linnaeus increased and his position as one of the national heroes of Sweden was established.
		Where Linnaeus or his correspondents have made alterations in the text the final version is reproduced and the original readings are given in the textual notes.
	linnaeus.c18.net /Doc/presentation.php (1389 words)

	Rocky Road: Linnaeus
		Linnaeus remarked, "The names bestowed on plants by the ancient Greeks and Romans I commend, but I shudder at the sight of most of those given by modern authorities." He had good reason to shudder; one "formal" name for the tomato was Solanum caule inerme herbaceo, foliis pinnatis incisis, racemis simplicibus.
		Linnaeus was an interesting man. Though he wrote a number of useful books on plant classification that would make botany possible "Yes, even for Women themselves," he kept his own daughters semi-literate, wanting them to be good housekeepers rather than uppity bluestockings.
		And though the image-conscious Linnaeus later credited a sudden flash of insight, binomial nomenclature was the result of long painstaking work by Linnaeus and — especially — his young, poor students, whom he often employed as industrial spies.
	www.strangescience.net /linn.htm (764 words)

	Early Works of Carl Linnaeus at The Holden Arboretum
		Linnaeus was born in Råshult, Sweden in 1707, the son of the local curate and his wife.
		Linnaeus had brought with him a number of manuscripts begun at Uppsala which he completed and finally saw published in Holland.
		Although Linnaeus worked on many of his writings while in residence at Clifford's estate, where he had access to Clifford's extensive library as well as to his botanical collections, two of his writings deal primarily with his work at Hartecamp.
	members.aol.com /arbexhibit/96linn3.htm (1009 words)

	David Young: Acquiring the Friedrich Tippmann Collection - Linnaeus
		Linnaeus was a creationist, like many other naturalists of his time.
		Linnaeus abandoned the strictly linear view of biological relationships that was so popular for his own more diffuse, hierarchical arrangement.
		Linnaeus advocated an "artifical system" of plant classification that emphasized the number of reproductive organs to the near exclusion of all other characteristics.
	www.lib.ncsu.edu /exhibits/tippmann/linneaus.html (595 words)

	Harvard University Press: Linnaeus : Nature and Nation by Lisbet Koerner
		Single-handedly, Linnaeus standardized the naming and classifying of plants and animals based on morphological characteristics with his now famous binormial nomenclature--the first name is the organism's genus, the second its species...In this well-written book, the author concentrates on two big themes: Linnaeus' concerns about his own nation and his contributions to science.
		Linnaeus is remembered as the botanist who established the plant classification system still used today, but actually, according to science historian Koerner, he was a jack-of-all-trades.
		She has shown a way in which the eighteenth century and its 'enlightened' projects grew out of the seventeenth century and its 'baroque' ones...The text is written with wit and irony...The prose is spare, precise, calm and repays rereading.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/KOELIN.html?show=reviews (607 words)

	Carolus Linnaeus
		Linnaeus continued to publish new editions of his Systema Naturae throughout his life, and it grew from a slim pamphlet to a multi-volume work.
		Linnaeus was given a professorial appointment at the University of Uppsala, and he spent his time there teaching and restoring the botanical garden where he had worked as a young medical student, arranging the plants according to his system of classification.
		When he was in his seventies, Linnaeus suffered a stroke which caused his health to decline, he died January 10th, 1778.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/paleontology/29306/2 (342 words)

	Zoology -- Linnaeus and His Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Karl von Linné (his Latinized name is Carolius Linnaeus) is today honored as the father of the binomial system of scientific nomenclature.
		If you should see "Eulemur mongoz [Linnaeus 1766]" then credit is also being given to Linnaeus for authorship even though he is not the author of the genus name "Eulemur" which was not coined until 1988 by Simmons and Rumpler.
		For example, Linnaeus is the author of Eulemur macaco macaco, a nominate form, but he is not the author of another subspecies known as Eulemur macaco flavifrons.
	www.origins.tv /darwin/zoo/linnaeus.htm (990 words)

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