Among many other achievements
Linnaeus also became the first to successfully cultivate the banana in Europe.
On his return from an expedition to northern Sweden,
Linnaeus had himself portrayed as a Laplander, stagecraft that Banks emulated when he posed as a Maori chief for artist Benjamin West.
Colesworthy Grant had been employed to ioin the Mission as artist and photographer, but when it was found that his photographic skills were not up to standard,
Linnaeus Tripe was seconded to the mission as 'artist in photography'.
In fact
Linnaeus only lived in Rashult until the age of two as his father then obtained the living of nearby Stebrohult.
Blunt has the British sense of fair-play and a reticent, decent distance from so accomplished a life as that of
Linnaeus, paying great attention to the people
Linnaeus knew in England, Holland, Germany, and Sweden.
But, as Koerner amply demonstrates,
Linnaeus was scarcely an orthodox thinker in any realm.
And the claws of the cancer pegurus
linnaeus crabs stretch to a foot in length.
It is worth pointing out that
Linnaeus thought on the scale of the planet as a whole.
In "The English Pupil," Carl
Linnaeus, founder of the binomial classification system, is dying.
Perhaps the most profound name ever bestowed upon a species was that given to human beings by Karl
Linnaeus in 1753 in his great book Systema Naturae - namely, Homo sapiens.
Born the son of a country parson who loved flowers,
Linnaeus set himself the task of establishing general systems of classification for all plants, animals and minerals.
In The Garden of
Linnaeus, the allegory and symbolism of naming and taxonomy acts to capture and intensify the quest for the true meaning of the garden.
