The Linnaean legacy
Subtitle: three centuries after his birth
By: edited by Mary J. Morris and Leonie Berwick
Contributors: Berwick Leonie
Series: Linnean -- no. 8
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Influence; Natural history; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- David Cutler -- Part 1.; title: Unlocking the past.; title: Commemoration speech  -- Carl-Olof Jacobson; title: The keen eye : Linnaeus, the man who say everything  -- Karin Berglund; title: Linnaeus : an 18th century background  -- Marie-Christine Skuncke; title: What's more important, a good story or a true story? The merging of facts and fiction at Linnaeus' houses in Uppsala  -- Margareta Nisser-Dalman; title: Making memorials : early celebrations of Linnaeus  -- Hanna Östholm; title: The origin of and the philosophy behind Linnaeus' sexual system  -- Nils Uddenberg; title: Linnaeus' sexual system and the flowering plant phylogeny  -- Birgitta Bremer; title: Science or poetry? Vernacular plant names and binary nomenclature in Sweden around 1900  -- Jenny Beckman; title: Apollos of systematic botany -- Pieter Baas; title: Part 2.; title: Botanical art in the Age of Linnaeus.; title: Linnaeus' use of illustrations in his naming of plants  -- Charlie Jarvis; title: Georg Dionysius Ehret : a glimpse into the Golden Age of botany  -- Annika Erikson Browne; title: Botanical art in the age of Linnaeus  -- Brent Elliott; title: Linnaeus' legacy : botanical art from the age of transoceanic discovery -- John Edmondson; title: Part 3.; title: Today and the future.; title: Linné and taxonomy in Japan : on the 300th anniversary of his birth  -- His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; title: England's Linnaeus  -- Brent Elliott; title: Linnaeus' Lapland Herbarium in Paris  -- Bengt Jonsell; title: The conservation of iconic objects and Linnaeus' books and wallpaper  -- Per Cullhed; title: The Linnean collections at Uppsala University  -- Roland Moberg; title: Linnaeus' specimens of mammals and birds  -- Anthea Gentry; title: The Linnaeus Link Project  -- Carol Gökçe; title: Linnaean landscapes : transforming Linnaeus' cultural context into a cultural heritage  -- Mariette Manktelow; title: A tribute to Linnaeus at the Chelsea Flower Show 2007  -- Ulf Nordfjell; title: Naming nature : the future of the Linnaean System -- Sandra Knapp.