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"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
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
(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........
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
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 #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary @NYBG: https://t.co/8GyHqkvyb0
And the #UPickSciArt winner is? 🥁
Sloths!
You voted, we deliver.
L: Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus). R: Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (C. hoffmanni). #SciArt by J.G. Keulemans in Proceedings of the @OfficialZSL (1872) via @NHM_Library: https://t.co/LL5IryIg2s