Comments on: Book review – The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

By: Book review – The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:37:35 +0000

[…] still influences the way that we understand the natural world” (p. 2). At a time when botany was all about taxonomy, he saw connections with climate and geography and grouped plants into vegetation zones, giving […]

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By: Book review – Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:54:19 +0000

[…] back to Susannah Gibson’s 2015 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? After dealing with biographies of Linnaeus and Buffon, and then Ragan’s Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains, her book was just crying out […]

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By: Book review – Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:37:54 +0000

[…] the history of taxonomy. In the last two reviews, I zoomed in on two important historical figures, Linnaeus and Buffon. Obviously, trying to understand how the living world is organized occupied the minds of […]

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By: Book review – Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:39:37 +0000

[…] is the second of a three-part review on the history of taxonomy. Having just read Gunnar Broberg’s biography of Linnaeus, I now turn to Every Living Thing. Linnaeus was not the only seventeenth-century scholar trying to […]

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