Document Type
Book Review
Abstract
Excerpt: Not all historians agree thoroughly with Julius von Sachs' suggestion in the Geschichte der Botanik (1875) that the work of Carl von Linnd marked the conclusion of an old epoch rather than the beginning of a new one, but it is true that most of Linnaeus' contributions were elaborations of the views of his predecessors. Except to historians of science, his sexual system of the classification of plants is all but forgotten. Yet as the grand nomenclator of the eighteenth century, and the regulator and popularizer (if not the innovator) of binomial nomenclature in biology, his place is secure in our memory.
Recommended Citation
Wilkinson, Ronald S.
1972.
"The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus. Wilfrid Blunt. New York: The Viking Press, 1971. 256 pp. $14.95.,"
The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 5
(3)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/0090-0222.1169
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol5/iss3/4