The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus - Blunt, Wilfrid 1901-1987; Stearn, William T. 1911-2001 (London Collins, 1971)
A presentation of the life and work of Linnaeus whose pioneering efforts revolutionized the methods of scientific thinking in his own day and formed the foundation of modern biology.
Linnaeus was of pivotal importance in the Age of Enlightenment. Though an adventurous traveler, keen collector, zoologist, and geologist, he loved botany most of all. The son of a pastor, he believed he was chosen by God to resolve the jumbled classification of the natural world. Through his Systema Naturae, first published in 1735, he brought order to all recorded knowledge about living things, distinguishing and naming 7,700 plants and 4,400 animals in his lifetime.
Bibliography: p. 250-251.
Keywords: Linnaeus, Carolus -- 1741-1783; 18th Century (1701-1800); Science; Biography; Sweden