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  2. Linnaean taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his Systema Naturae (1735) and subsequent works. In the taxonomy of Linnaeus there are three kingdoms, divided into classes, and the classes divided into lower ranks in a hierarchical order. A term for rank-based classification of organisms, in ...

  3. Systema Naturae - Wikipedia

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    According to the historian of botany William T. Stearn, "Even in 1753 he believed that the number of species of plants in the whole world would hardly reach 10,000; in his whole career he named about 7,700 species of flowering plants." [9] Linnaeus developed his classification of the plant kingdom in an attempt to describe and understand the ...

  4. Species Plantarum - Wikipedia

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    Species Plantarum (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known at the time, classified into genera. It is the first work to consistently apply binomial names and was the starting point for the naming of plants .

  5. Linnaean Herbarium - Wikipedia

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    Linnaeus started his herbarium as a student at Lund University in 1727–28, collecting about 600 Swedish plants by autumn 1729. [1] The collection grew significantly during his time in Holland and England (1735–38), where he acquired specimens from Virginia , the West Indies , Central America , and various gardens. [ 1 ]

  6. Philosophia Botanica - Wikipedia

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    Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), who established the binomial system of plant nomenclature. Systema Naturæ was Linnaeus's early attempt to organise nature. [7] The first edition was published in 1735 and in it he outlines his ideas for the hierarchical classification of the natural world (the "system of nature") by dividing it into the animal kingdom (Regnum animale), the plant kingdom (Regnum ...

  7. List of systems of plant taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    A pioneering system of plant taxonomy, Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, Leiden, 1735. This list of systems of plant taxonomy presents "taxonomic systems" used in plant classification. A taxonomic system is a coherent whole of taxonomic judgments on circumscription and placement of the considered taxa. It is only a "system" if it is applied to a ...

  8. Carl Linnaeus - Wikipedia

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    Rothman showed Linnaeus that botany was a serious subject. He taught Linnaeus to classify plants according to Tournefort's system. Linnaeus was also taught about the sexual reproduction of plants, according to Sébastien Vaillant. [31] In 1727, Linnaeus, age 21, enrolled in Lund University in Skåne.

  9. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Well before Linnaeus, plants and animals were considered separate Kingdoms. [68] [unreliable source?] Linnaeus used this as the top rank, dividing the physical world into the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms. As advances in microscopy made the classification of microorganisms possible, the number of kingdoms increased, five- and six ...