Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the ...

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 ...

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 ...