This vlog style film introduces the work of Swedish scientist, Carl Linnaeus. He talks about his scientific method - taxonomy ...

Without a wife and a well-functioning household, Carl Linnaeus would have had difficulty becoming the prominent scientist that he was. Mastering social codes, like clothing and hosting guests for ...

Robyn Williams: Classification of animals and plants is essential for biological science to work. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus adopted the use of binomial names. He will be 300 on the 23rd May ...

Carl Linnaeus is most famous as the father of modern taxonomy. What’s not so well known is that in his effort to manage vast amounts of data, he came up with a revolutionary invention: the index card.

Safe to say that without Carl Linnaeus, we wouldn't have the term 'homo sapiens'. The 18th-century Swedish botanist is credited with inventing binomial nomenclature, the system of naming and grouping ...

Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) was a Swedish botanist who devised the binomial classification system, a two-part naming system to identify, classify and name organisms from bacteria to elephant. Carl ...

The essential scientific practice of naming and classifying natural organisms owes its roots to the vision and work of Swedish biologist and physician Carl Linnaeus. Born to a curate named Nils ...

Students who are beginning the study of forestry in college soon learn they have to identify and memorize the names of numerous trees. If that weren’t hard enough, most colleges require them to know ...

Anyone who thinks that a certain level of scientific genius imparts dignity might want to take a look at this incident in the life of Carl Linnaeus. He was a polymath, the father of modern biology, ...

As a consequence of overseas discoveries, early modern scientists faced serious information overload. The sheer amount of exotic, hitherto unknown species reaching the shores of Europe forced ...