The man who organised nature: the life of Linnaeus.
Octavo, dustwrapper, Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals. Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognisable abbreviation 'L' is used to mark classifications originally made by Linnaeus. This..... More