In the field: exploring nature with Carolus Linnaeus

Hodacs, Hanna

doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.11.001

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“…As an education method, Linné was teaching nature to his students by walking outdoor fields. 29 This was not originally his idea, similar method was also performing in the Reneissance and even Medieval. 30 However, Linné was a very successful practitioner of this method.…”

Section: Prominent Scientific and Philosophical Figures In Northern E...mentioning

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“…These excursions were public activity, open for both men and women not only students, who cares and interests on nature. 29,31 During excursions participants were collecting minerals, insects, plants so on. 29 Besides scientific purposes, in this way, public awareness about nature was providing as well.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…29,31 During excursions participants were collecting minerals, insects, plants so on. 29 Besides scientific purposes, in this way, public awareness about nature was providing as well. The first stop on the road to binomial nomenclature was scientific expeditions, and the second was the classification style seen in Linné's manuscripts and books.…”

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Carl von Linné: The Development of the Idea of Binomial Nomenclature

Yücesan

2022

J Med Biogr

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Due to binomial classification system defined by Carl von Linné, it has been shown that living things that were thought to be independent from each other are actually in a relationship. This "binomial classification" idea corresponds to a leap in the history of human thought. Carl von Linné's original idea is a product of the specific conditions of the period, particularly the renaissance and reform movements and geographical discoveries, rather than an idea he produced alone. These movements are part of a chain of ideas that stretches from antiquity to the Medieval and then to the period called the Enlightenment. The aforementioned transformations generally affected the scientist, albeit indirectly, even in geographies far from Sweden, where Carl von Linné spent most of his life. As such, the binomial classification system stands before us as a result of scientific breakthroughs in central Europe. In this study, it will be tried to be explained by taking the opus magnum of Carl von Linne as an example, taking into account the course of scientific developments, which we can attribute to the European civilization, and the philosophical and social texture.

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Carl von Linné: The Development of the Idea of Binomial Nomenclature

Yücesan

2022

J Med Biogr

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Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies, ca. 1680–1810**

Hünniger

2021

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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The practice of early modern natural history depended on the collective collecting activities of a great variety of people. Among them, artisans played a major role in acquiring and distributing knowledge about the natural world and they contributed significantly to the scholarly labour in natural history. This distributed labour was both acknowledged by contemporaries as well as hidden from sight, reflecting the period's dominant norms for class and gender. By combining an interpretation of the visual representation of labour in European insect studies with an examination of written sources about natural history practices from about 1680 to 1810, this article decodes the oftencodified frontispieces and other more symbolic illustrations to offer new insights into the labour of natural history. Those who identified as scholars and artisans (or both) conceptualised their own intellectual and practical engagement with natural history within the semantic field of work. Some seemed to have even envisioned a new social role for academics as well as artisans. This article analyses the diversity of the "productive forces" in insect studies as they changed over time and it reconstructs what I will call the social imaginaries of participation.

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