Carolus Linnaeus

One of the Swede's brilliantly simple ideas was to classify plants by counting their sexual parts, the pistils and stamens. --Mark Cocker, The sex life of plants, The Guardian, Saturday May 10, 2008, review of The Brother Gardeners, by Andrea Wulf (via Arts & Letters Daily)


Recommended reading:
by Carolus Linnaeus at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Master Taxonomist, by Guy Davenport, The New Criterion, January 2003, review of Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist, by Wilfrid Blunt