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!

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"Stockholms Archipelago, Robert Linnaeus, 2019. From u/RMCPhoto on /r/mostbeautiful

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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

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The anatomy of the eye of Nautilus pompilius Linnaeus - Ekaterina Khramova https://t.co/BomoRCrQCM

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This gorgeous screenshot is from a 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. https://t.co/Yh9ccXvUvT

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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

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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!<<

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(June 15 OS), visited the small island /#Blåkulla in the strait between & He listed the plants, so "#botanists will have a reliable These included borealis.
(NMP https://t.co/BnngLkYRM0).

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(June 13 OS), 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

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(May 26 OS), was shown (#Phallus impudicus; a scarce found in by a local doctor). Boys were eating sylvestris as a snack; he extolled its virtues as a plant. Then he saw (#Caprimulgus europaeus).

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Anders Dahl–died 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.

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(May 19 OS/30 NS), stayed in (no horses) - but still listed He saw factories for (#sugarcane), cloth (#Dipsacus; & (#Nicotiana). & in gardens.

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(May 17 OS/28 NS, 1741) in Nyköping, focused on industry in (flour, paper, rolling mills; brass foundery), herbal remedies (#Rhododendron tomentosum - against and (#Oenanthe)

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"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."

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(Incidentally, both Sauvages and Linnaeus appear to have been acting on a suggestion of the great English physician Thomas Sydenham, who wrote that...

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イソチドリ。
Amathina tricarinata
(Linnaeus.1767)
先日の25㎜中央は、過去最大。
鎌倉海辺。

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For 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

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Merian’s work was executed with such accuracy and detail that later scientists, including Linnaeus, would use it to describe 100 species, including the tarantula.
Story: https://t.co/NYPJPpWOt7

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John Miller's "Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaeani", initially issued in 20 parts from 1770-1777 to 85 subscribers, attempted to illustrate Linnaeus' sexual system for plant classification. View the 1789 ed. in via : https://t.co/8GyHqkvyb0

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