Linnaeus's Systema Naturae charts life. Swedish botanist Carl von Linne, writing under the Latin name Linnaeus, attempts to classify all life on Earth. He publishes the first edition of Systema ...

(Systema Naturae, by Carolus Linnaeus published in 1735. Courtesy of the Embassy of Sweden.) ...

THE first volume of the tenth edition of Linnæus “Systema Naturae”, published in 1758, is now universally accepted by zoologists as the starting point for the application of the rule of ...