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Carl Linnaeus
Works
Linnaeus' corpus was written entirely in Latin and Swedish, but some works have been translated into English:
- An introduction to botany, containing an explanation of the theory of that science, extracted from the works of Dr. Linnaeus (1776, by James Lee)
- Darwin, Erasmus (1783), A System of Vegetables
- —translation of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium (13th edition)
- Darwin, Erasmus (1787) The Families of Plants
- —translation of Linnaeus' Genera Plantarum (last edition)
- Lachesis Lapponica, or a tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus (1811, translated by James Edward Smith)
- A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus and other naturalists from the original manuscripts (1821, two volumes, translated by James Edward Smith)
- Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica (2005, translated by Stephen Freer, translation currently under copyright)
Works about Linnaeus
- Linnaeus article in Encylcopædia Britannica
- The life of Sir Charles Linnaeus (1794, original Swedish work by D. H. Stoever; translated into English by Joseph Trapp)
- A general view of the writings of Linnaeus (1805, by Richard Pulteney, including a translation of Linnaeus' diaries)
- Linnaeus, in the 1905 Little journeys to homes of great scientists [1]
- Linnaeus, in the 1912 Biographies of Scientific Men[2]
- Lovejoy, Arthur O. "The Place of Linnaeus in the History of Science" in The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 71 (1907): 498-508.
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This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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