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Author Freer, Stephen

Title Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (429 pages)
Contents Preface; Introduction; Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica; I. The library; II. Systems; III. Plants; IV. The fruit-body; V. Sex; VI. Characters; VII. Names; VIII. Definitions; IX. Varieties; X. Synonyms; XI. Sketches; XII. Potencies; Appendix I: The Linnaean classes and orders; Appendix II: The natural orders; Appendix III: Abbreviations of names of botanists and other authorities; Appendix IV: Selective list of Linnaeus' works up to 1753; Appendix V: Selective list of other botanical works; Appendix VI: Principal sources used for this edition; Indexes
Summary The eighteenth-century botanist Carl von Linn--eacute--;, more commonly known as Linnaeus, was the inventor of the binary nomenclature now standard in biology. His Philosophia Botanica represents a key stage in the evolution of the scientific classification and naming of plants, and is a classic in the history of science and botany. Amazingly, no complete translation into English has been undertaken since 1775 prior to this edition. - ;Philosophia Botanica (The Science of Botany), by Carl Linnaeus, was originally published in Latin in Stockholm and Amsterdam in 1751. It is a greatly expanded r
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Subject Plants -- Classification -- Early works to 1800
NATURE -- Plants -- General.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
Plants
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Early works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191544866
0191544868