His parents wanted him to be a priest, but he rejected the collar to study natural order. Swede Carl Linnaeus, a medical doctor who treated syphilis, tried to organize the world's flora and fauna.

In Greece, Easter is not only a spiritual celebration but also a season when nature, too, takes part—through the blooming of ...

Indeed, to put it in the fashion of that biographer of Linnaeus whom she calls “dear old Stoever,” she can rarely keep her course clear of the Scylla of her own wisdom and the Charybdis of ...

In 1736, on a visit to the house of the botanist Johannes Burman (1706-1779), Clifford was introduced to an up-and-coming young Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, who was living and working there.

The database contains images of the butterfly specimens upon which Linnaeus based his descriptions. Linnaeus described 305 taxa under the name Papilio. Of these, 241 refer to currently valid butterfly ...

CARL LINNAEUS: What's up, peeps? Oh do you like my relaxation tape? It's called sounds from the jungle.Welcome to my vlog, guys. All the way from my home town here in Sweden. I'm Carl Linnaeus ...