Doctor Carl Linnaeus Physician: 3 (Mundus Linnai Series) - Softcover

Landel, Nils Erik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904145140 ISBN 13: 9781904145141

Publisher: IK Foundation & Co Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Most people know that CARL LINNAEUS (1707-1778) is world-famous for the system of nomenclature he developed, still used by botanists and zoologists to this day. He is also known for his travels throughout Sweden and descriptions of the Swedish landscape, and for having inspired worldwide travel for scientific purposes by the chosen few who came to be known as the Linnaeus 'apostles'. But it may be less well known that for most of his life he was a practising doctor of medicine. This book tells the extraordinary story of this son of a Swedish country clergyman who had already written when still a schoolboy an advanced Notebook (untitled but generally known as "örtabok" or The Book of Plants) in which, in compact handwriting and mainly in Latin and Swedish, he described his own and others' reflections not only on nature in general, but on medicinal cures and the use of plants in alleviating sickness.

About this edition

• Publisher: IK Foundation & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1904145140
• ISBN 13: 9781904145141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Hansen Lars