Carolus Linnaeus News from United Press International.Wiki Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (help·info), May 23 1707 – January ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms ...

Linnaeus, also known as Carolus Linnaeus or Carol von Linne, was the 18th-century Swedish botanist who pioneered the way scientists classify plants and animals and give them names. […] ...

Every room of the Linnaeus house contains gems: an amber-toned globe (with but a few dots on the American continent), a silver bowl for wild strawberries, a shaman’s magic drum from Lapland.

This complex system dates back to the work of 18th century naturalist Carolus Linnaeus, who first proposed the idea that every living creature could be classified using a hierarchical system, and ...

In 1751, Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus came up with the novel idea of using flowers as clocks. Morning glories open their trumpetlike petals around 10 a.m., water lilies at 11 and so on through ...

The botanist Carolus Linnaeus was born Carl Nilsson Linnaeus in 1707 in the southern Swedish province of Smaland. His clergyman father, Nils, taught the young Carl Latin, religion and geography ...

He's more influential than ABBA, more famous than Björn Borg. On 23 May, Sweden will celebrate the 300th birthday of its most illustrious son: Carolus Linnaeus. The naturalist practically ...