There are places on the moon named after him. His face appears on Swedish currency, and an era of scientific history bears his name. But Carl Linnaeus is best known for creating the system of ...

Attention Homo sapiens: Carl Linnaeus's book Systema Naturae, in which he introduced the modern system of taxonomic nomenclature, is on display November 6 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and ...

But in the 1730s, the self-proclaimed “prince of botany” made a contribution to taxonomy that, at the time, was just as profound as any of his other achievements. After realizing that floral sex parts ...