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Final Jeopardy question last night: a century before Darwin, who classified humans and orangutans in the same group? If they'd read my bio, Karl, Get Out of the Garden, they'd have known the answer: Carolus Linnaeus! #STEM #biography #scientist #kidlit @charlesbridge
"Stockholms Archipelago, Robert Linnaeus, 2019. From u/RMCPhoto on /r/mostbeautiful #stockholmsarchipelago #robertlinnaeus #2019 #mostbeautiful"
week 316: The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus named the genus, Tradescantia, in honour of a pair of English gardeners and plant collectors; the John Tradescants, father (1570-1638) and son (1608-1662). Discover more at https://t.co/jaWEaulJLr
Carl Linnaeus was a great admirer of George Edwards. He named nearly 350 birds on the basis of material provided by Edwards. But #DYK Edwards was also an important link between Linnaeus & Mark Catesby? @birdernewjersey explains via the painted bunting ➡️ https://t.co/yXkPFBdVnu
The anatomy of the eye of Nautilus pompilius Linnaeus - Ekaterina Khramova #illustraciencia7 https://t.co/BomoRCrQCM
This gorgeous screenshot is from a @LinneanLearning video! They have produced a variety of beautiful videos which explore the fascinating world of Carl Linnaeus, taxonomy and whole organism biology - all with strong curriculum links. #BiologyWeek https://t.co/Yh9ccXvUvT
Cicindela hybrida Linnaeus, 1758 - Northern dune tiger beetle. The beetle lives up in the dunes on the Sefton Coastline in Liverpool, they like to hang around in the warm sand of the dunes and set up home with their little larvae, trying not to be endang… https://t.co/1HKQn9FzvW
솔트록 엔딩난지 1년째... 드디어 둘의 종을 정확히 알게되었다(....) brown-throated three toed sloth 였던걸로..... 근데 무늬말고 얼굴 형태는 linnaeus's 로 그리긴했네 뭐 엄마가 이 종이라 섞였다고하자!<<
#OTD (June 13 OS), #Linnaeus rode from Persnäs to Gaxa where Argentina anserina (silverweed/gåsört) & Senecio vulgaris (groundsel/korsört) grew on beach.; cinnabar moth (karminspinnare) caterpillars were feeding on the latter. https://t.co/c28r3KDjGe
#OTD (May 26 OS), #Linnaeus was shown #stinkhorn (#Phallus impudicus; a scarce #fungus found in #Småland by a local doctor). Boys were eating #Pinus sylvestris #sapwood as a snack; he extolled its virtues as a #medicinal plant. Then he saw #nightjars (#Caprimulgus europaeus).
Anders Dahl–died #OTD 1789, aged 38–was interested in botany from an early age & co-founded The Swedish Topographic Society in Skara. The dahlia was named after him, an honour wrongly thought to have been bestowed on him by Carl Linnaeus of whom he was a pupil.
#OTD (May 19 OS/30 NS), #Linnaeus stayed in #Norrköping (no horses) - but still listed #plants! He saw factories for #sugar (#sugarcane), cloth (#Dipsacus; #Serratula/#Reseda/#Arctostaphylos/#dyeplants) & #tobacco (#Nicotiana). #Fritillaria, #Primula & #Portulaca in gardens.
#OTD (May 17 OS/28 NS, 1741) in Nyköping, #Linnaeus focused on industry in (flour, paper, rolling mills; brass foundery), herbal remedies (#Rhododendron tomentosum - against #lice) and #poisonousplants (#Oenanthe) #economicbotany
"She became an artist just so she could paint pictures of caterpillars & butterflies, & her images were so accurate that Carl Linnaeus later used them to name species." #wcw #WomensHistoryMonth
(Incidentally, both Sauvages and Linnaeus appear to have been acting on a suggestion of the great English physician Thomas Sydenham, who wrote that...
For #BurnsNight2019 we've found this beautiful hand-coloured plate of thistles. Believed to have hung on Linnaeus' wall, the plate was given to Linnaeus by Johannes Gessner c.1764 https://t.co/co8cg5Zn7V
Botanical illustration and the park: Thirty-eight plates, with explanations : intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany, 1817 .....https://t.co/gFw4TBfuOw from Biodiversity Heritage Library........