Carl von Linné

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English: Carl Linnaeus, widely known by the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), aka Carl von Linné, aka Carlos Linneo, was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for modern biological nomenclature.

[edit] Portraits

Painting by J.H. Scheffel
Painting by Per Krafft
Painting by Alexander Roslin
Cleaned up version of Alexander Roslin's painting
Carl Linnaeus dressed as a Laplander
From The Temple of Flora

[edit] Works

Cover of Systema Naturae, 1st edition (1735).
Cover of Systema Naturae, 11th edition (1760/MDCCLX), printed in Germany.
Cover of Systema Naturae, 11th edition (1760/MDCCLX), printed in Germany.
The Animal Kingdom, from the first edition of Systema Naturae (1735).
Page of Systema Naturae (6th ed., 1748) relative to Quadrupedia.
Page 105 of Systema Naturae, 13th edition (1767), printed in Vienna.
Page 837 of Systema Naturae, 10th edition (1758), explaining the sexual system.
Cover of Species plantarum (1753).
Cover of Species plantarum (1753),
rotated and trimmed.
Drawing of Systema Sexuale‎
Drawing of Systema Sexuale (larger)

[edit] Places

Råshult in Småland, where he was born
Råshult, closer
Råshult, monument behind the building
Råshult in the winter
Linnaeus's house in Uppsala
Linnaeus's botanic garden in Uppsala
The gravestone of Linné and his son in the cathedral of Uppsala
Epitaph of Carolus Linnaeus, Uppsala Cathedral.

Linnaeus's country house at Hammarby

[edit] Monuments and sculptures

Statue in Lund
Statue in Lund (summer)
Statue at the Royal Academy of Art, London
Statue by Johan Niclas Byström in the Uppsala Botanical Garden, photographed while temporarily placed in Carolina Rediviva.
Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid (Spain).
Linnés Garden in Uppsala
Botanical Garden, Wrocław (Poland)
Stockholm
Linnaeus
Orto botanico di Palermo
Skansen in Stockholm