He sorted and systematized and coined names for more than twelve thousand species. What do you call someone like that? The future father of modern taxonomy was born in Råshult, a village in southern ...

There are places on the moon named after him. His face appears on Swedish currency, and an era of scientific history bears his name. But Carl Linnaeus is best known for creating the system of ...

Attention Homo sapiens: Carl Linnaeus's book Systema Naturae, in which he introduced the modern system of taxonomic nomenclature, is on display November 6 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and ...