Order from Chaos: Linnaeus Disposes Synthesizing the work of predecessors and contemporaries |
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As Linnaeus worked through the literature written by himself and others, he cited his sources. Shown here are two pages from Species Plantarum with the abbreviations that Linnaeus used for the authors’ names highlighted. Links to portraits, biographical information and texts of these naturalists upon whose work Linnaeus’ efforts were built are listed below. For the original exhibition, we were unable to show some of the actual texts cited by Linnaeus on pages 356357 of his Species Plantarum (1753) due to space constraints.
For more information on Linnaeus' system of references to earlier literature, we refer the reader to pages 39 of "An Appendix to the Species Plantarum of Carl Linnaeus," by John Lewis Heller and William Thomas Stearn, in Species Plantarum: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1753 (London, 19571959). Leonard Plukenet (16411706) [Pluk.] Joachim Camerer the Younger (15341598) [Cam.] Gaspard Bauhin (15601624) [Bauh.] Johann Bauhin (15411612) [Bauh.] Matthias de L’Obel (15381616) [Lob.] Albrecht von Haller (17081777) [Hall.] John Ray (16281705) [Ray.] Rembert Dodoens (15161585) [Dod.] Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (16561708) [Tournef.] Pietro Andrea Mattioli (15011577) [Matth.] Charles de L’Ecluse (also Clusius, 15251609) [Clus.] François Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages (17061767) [Sauv.]
Michel Adanson (17271806) Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (17481836)
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Salix; vulgaris, alba [Salix], watercolor by Georg D. Ehret (German, 17081770). |
Populus alba majoribus [Populus], watercolor by Georg D. Ehret (German, 17081770). |