Linnaeus: Carl

The name cinchona was coined by the Swedish botanist Linnaeus (Carl von Linne, 1707-1778) in honor of Dona Francisca Henriquez de Ribera, the fourth Condesa (Countess) of Chinchon and wife of the viceroy of Peru, a Spanish colony at the time [24, 25]. According to legend, in 1638 she was cured of malaria by the bark and, impressed with the cure, she took samples of cinchona to Spain, thereby... 

Linnaeus, Carl. 1737a. Generaplantarum. Lugduni Batavorum Wishoff. 

Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) described the Falun mine as follows .. . Out of the mine a constant smoke ascended. Never has a poet described a Styx, nor a theologian a hell so awful, as that seen here, for... 

Marijuana has been known by many names hemp, hashish, dagga, bhang, loco weed, grass - the list is endless. Formally christened Cannabis sativa in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus, marijuana is one of nature s hardiest specimens. It needs little care to thrive. One need not talk to it, sing to it, or play tranquil Brahms lullabies to coax it to grow. It is as vigorous as a weed. It is ubiquitous. It flourishes under nearly every possible climatic condition. 

In 1753, the hemp plant was christened Cannabis sativa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, in his Species Plantarum, and it has borne this name ever since. 

Variation - or biodiversity as it now tends to be called - may occur at the individual, intraspecific, specific or community/ecosystem level, or in DNA, cell, phenotype or population. It is inseparable from the effective study of biology. In past centuries, advances in biology were limited by the assumption that organisms were analogous to physical machines, and this restriction persisted until the thrall of Plato s essences were lifted and the invariant species of Carl Linnaeus became first the polytypic species of the late nineteenth century, and thence the clinally varying, highly polymorphic metapopulation of the mid twentieth century (Mayr,... 

Steam, W., Four supplementary Linnaean publications Methodus (1736), Demonstrationes Plan-tarum (1753), Genera Plantarum (1754), Ordines Naturales (1764), in Carl Linnaeus Species Plantarum A Facsimile of the First Edition 1753, Vol. 2, Ray Society, London, 1959, pp. 73-104. 

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Vols. 1,2 In Steam, W. T. 1957. Carl Linnaeus Species Plantarum. 

Carl Linnaeus (von Linne, 1707-1778) in his Iter Dalekarlicum (1734) referred to the short lives of sandstone quarrymen of Orsa. 

The history of quassinoids began in the mid-eighteenth century, after the discovery in 1760 of the febrifuge properties of a Simaroubaceae, Quassia amara L. (Fig. 125.5). The medicinal property of the roots of this species was revealed to Carl G. Dahlberg, a Dutch army officer, by a Suriname slave and famous healer named Kwasi. This recipe was subsequently made public by Daniel Rolander, a Swedish naturalist. Linnaeus, excited by the discovery of this plant and its uses, named it in honor of the healer. The botanist, however, committed an error in its description, corrected in 1763 by his disciple C.M. Blom [17-20]. 

Building on this point, we need to be wary of an idealized, overly systemic picture of descriptive science or natural historical ordering. Examples of such ideal taxonomic forms include the periodic table and many interpretations of the systemic work of Carl Linnaeus and his followers divorced from local context, and providing their own way of shaping the data which they contained. Klein and Lefevre s focus on chemical tables falls into this tradition of systemic description. 

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