Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
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18th century
- 1707May 23 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)source
- 1735Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae.source
- 1744October 12 – The creator of binomial nomenclature for the identification of plant and animal species, Carl Linnaeus, is selected as president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, succeeding the late Anders Celsius, who had devised the centigrade measurement of temperature.source
- 1751Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus publishes his Philosophia Botanica, the first textbook of descriptive systematic botanical taxonomy, and the first appearance of his binomial nomenclature.source
- 1753May 1 – Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus (adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants).source
- 1755The brine shrimp Artemia salina is first described, in Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ.source
- 1758January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (Animalia) of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature, introducing binomial nomenclature for animals to his established system of Linnaean taxonomy. Among the first examples of his system of identifying an organism by genus and then species, Linnaeus identifies the lamprey with the name Petromyzon marinus. He introduces the term Homo sapiens. (Date of January 1 assigned retrospectively.)source
- 1778January 10 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)source