Thursday, January 25, 2007

Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus, whose work on classification made him the "father of modern biology", was born 300 years ago today. I enjoyed listening to a discussion of Linnaeus and his work on Radio 4's Material World programme this afternoon. If you are interested you can find it here and listen online.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh, thanks for that link! I have been fascinated by Linnaeus since childhood when I read a book about him called "Beloved Botanist." I still ahve the book and look forward to reading it with dc. What a fascinating man.