Linnaeus : : Nature and Nation / / Lisbet Koerner.
Drawing on letters, poems, notebooks, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koerner tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred y...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. “To Apply Nature to Economics and Vice Versa”
- “A Geography of Nature”: Natural Philosophy
- “A Clapper intoa Bell”: Floral Names
- “The Lapp Is Our Teacher”: Medicine and Ethnography
- “God’s Endless Larder”: Theology
- “A NewWorld—Pepper, Ginger, Cardamon”: Economic Theory
- “Should Coconuts Chance to Come into My Hands”: Acclimatization Experiments
- “The Lord of All of Sweden’s Clams”: A Local Life
- “His Farmers Dressed in Mourning”: The Fate of Linnaeus’ Ideas in Sweden
- “Without Science Our Herrings Would Still Be Caught by Foreigners”: A Local Modernity
- Appendix A: Chronology of Linnaeus and Linnaeana
- Appendix B: Biographical References
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index