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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: 61. Chapters: Carl Linnaeus, Heinrich Anton de Bary, William Withering, John Ray, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, William Henry Harvey, Ferdinand von Mueller, Allan Cunningham, Adelbert von Chamisso, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Harold E. Robinson, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Michel Adanson, Carl Correns, Joseph Rock, Carl Peter Thunberg, John Lindley, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Peter Forsskal, Karl Wilhelm von Nageli, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Nathanael Pringsheim, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Stephan Endlicher, Hiroshi Tamiya, Ludwig Reichenbach, George Crawford Hyndman, Aime Bonpland, Goran Wahlenberg, Edward W. Berry, James Brodie of Brodie, Franz von Paula Schrank, Ruth Patrick, Rene Louiche Desfontaines, Johannes Reinke, Konstantin Mereschkowski, Henry Watts, Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre, William McCalla, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Constantin von Ettingshausen, M. Foslie, Jean Pierre Etienne Vaucher, George Thomas Moore, Philip Barker Webb, Maria Emma Gray, Alfred Douglas Hardy, Georg Fresenius, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Johann Joseph Peyritsch, Amelia Griffiths, Franz Carl Mertens, Robert Hippolyte Chodat, B. Greg Mitchell, Michel Felix Dunal, John Stackhouse, John Cocks, Muriel Bristol. 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 Uni...
