Carolus Linnaeus. Swedish Botanist 1707-1778 Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus is best remembered for his classification system and binomial system of nomenclature. He brought order to the chaotic state of biological knowledge in the eighteenth...

Swedish physician and botanist Carl von Linné (Linnaeus) decisively broke through centuries of confusion over how to revise the classification system that had been in place since antiquity. With few parallels in the history of science,...

1707-1778 Swedish Physician and Botanist Carolus Linnaeus established the system of binomial nomenclature and a taxonomical hierarchy in the 1700s. Roundly acclaimed as the first successful attempt to classify and name living things, the system...

Carolus Linnaeus was the founder of modern scientific methods for naming plants and animals. Botanist 1707-1778 Carolus Linnaeus was born on May 23, 1707, in Råshult, Sweden....

(born May 23, 1707, Råshult, Smâland, Swed.—died Jan. 10, 1778, Uppsala) Swedish botanist and explorer. He studied botany at Uppsala university and explored Swedish Lapland before going to Holland to study medicine (1735). There he...