What Linnaeus saw : a scientist's quest to name every living thing /
Beil, Karen Magnuson,
What Linnaeus saw : a scientist's quest to name every living thing / Karen Magnuson Beil. - 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Not one pumpkin -- Every growing thing -- Into the arctic! -- Dragon with seven heads -- Can bananas grow in Holland? -- Nature's blueprint -- Last name, first name -- Most controversial plant -- Human vs. animal -- Student explorers -- The professor.
The globetrotting naturalists of the eighteenth century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology.
Age 10-14.
9781324004684 1324004681
2019014206
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 --Juvenile literature.
Naturalists--Sweden--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Biographies.
Illustrated works.
What Linnaeus saw : a scientist's quest to name every living thing / Karen Magnuson Beil. - 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Not one pumpkin -- Every growing thing -- Into the arctic! -- Dragon with seven heads -- Can bananas grow in Holland? -- Nature's blueprint -- Last name, first name -- Most controversial plant -- Human vs. animal -- Student explorers -- The professor.
The globetrotting naturalists of the eighteenth century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology.
Age 10-14.
9781324004684 1324004681
2019014206
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 --Juvenile literature.
Naturalists--Sweden--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Biographies.
Illustrated works.