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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Carl Linnaeus, Elias Magnus Fries, Anders Dahl, Lars Levi Laestadius, Daniel Solander, Carl Peter Thunberg, Pehr Kalm, Peter Forsskal, Eric Hulten, Olof Swartz, Gote Turesson, Erik Leonard Ekman, Nils Heribert-Nilsson, Bertil Nordenstam, Karl Olov Hedberg, Astrid Cleve, Nils Johan Andersson, Eva Ekeblad, Erik Acharius, Robert Elias Fries, John Axel Nannfeldt, Eric Ragnor Sventenius, Johannes Browallius, Rolf Dahlgren, Goran Wahlenberg, Doris Love, Anders Fredrik Regnell, Adam Afzelius, Thore Christian Elias Fries, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Anders Jahan Retzius, Gunnar Oquist, Carl Adolph Agardh, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Carl Skottsberg, Flora Lapponica, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Elsa Beata Bunge, Goran Rothman, Johan Erhard Areschoug, Thorild Wulff, Otto Martin Torell, Gunnar Erdtman, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Sven Berggren, Jacob Georg Agardh, Johan Erik Forsstrom, Carl Rudolf Florin, Frans Reinhold Kjellman, Pehr Lofling, C. V. Hartman, Hans Runemark, Nils Malmer, Olof Celsius, Clas Bjerkander, Gustaf Johan Billberg, Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Bengt Lidforss, Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt, Carl Fredrik Nyman, Johan Peter Falck, Henrik Hesselman, Ake Gustafsson, Hugo Osvald, Israel af Strom. Excerpt: Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 - 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as .), was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Linnaeus was born in the countryside of Smaland, in southern Sweden. Linnaeus received most of his higher education at Uppsala University, and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published a first edition of his Systema Naturae in the ..
