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Linnaeus
Contributor(s): Jackson, Benjamin Daydon (Editor), Jackson, Benjamin Daydon (Translator), Fries, Theodor Magnus (Author)
ISBN: 1139095625     ISBN-13: 9781139095624
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats
Published: May 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | History
- Science | Life Sciences - Botany
Dewey: 580.92
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences
 
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This biography of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707-78) was originally published in 1903 by another Swedish botanist, Theodor Magnus Fries (1832-1913). This English version, published in 1923, was translated and edited by British botanist Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1846-1927). Jackson is best known for founding (with J. D. Hooker) the Index Kewensis, the register of all botanical names of seed plants; he also acted as Secretary of the Linnean Society for twenty-two years, becoming its General Secretary in 1902. This biography covers the early life of Linnaeus (including some family history), his student years at Uppsala, his travels, his years as a teacher, notes on his personality and his relationship with the wider scientific community. Jackson provides further information in the appendices, enhancing Fries' work with Linnaeus' genealogy, a list of his pupils, his private notes on 'Divine Punishment' and a brief history of Sweden during Linnaeus' lifetime.