Download or read book Linnaeus written by Lisbet Koerner and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on letters, poems, notebooks, and secret diaries, Koerner tells the story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. Koerner’s narrative goes against the grain of scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his time.