Author:Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus
(1707–1778)

Carl Linnaeus

Works

Linnaeus' corpus was written entirely in Latin and Swedish, but some works have been translated into English:

• Systema Naturae (1735)
  • Institutions of Entomology (1773), trans. by T.P. Yeats (external scan)
  • The Animal Kingdom, or, Zoological System of the Celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus (1792), trans. by Robert Kerr (external scan)
  • Elements of Natural History (1801), trans. by Charles Stewart (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • A General System of Nature, through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals (1802), trans. by William Turton (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Genera Plantarum (1737)
  • The Families of Plants (1787), trans. by Erasmus Darwin
• Amoenitates Academicae (1749–1790), student dissertations edited by Linnaeus
  • Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick, Translated from the Latin, with Notes (1759) (external scan)
  • Select Dissertations from the Amoenitates Academiae, A Supplement to Mr. Stillingfleet's Tracts Relating to Natural History (1781), trans. by F.J. Brand (external scan)
• Philosophia Botanica (1751)
  • The Elements of Botany (1775), trans. by Huge Rose (external scan)
  • An Introduction to Botany (1776; 1788; 1810), trans. by James Lee
• Systema Vegetabilium (1774)
  • A System of Vegetables (1782), trans. by a botanical society at Lichfield, England, (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • A System of Vegetables (1783), trans. by Erasmus Darwin
• Unpublished manuscripts and correspondence
  • Lachesis Lapponica, or, A Tour in Lapland... (1811), trans. by James Edward Smith (external scan)
  • A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus and Other Naturalists from the Original Manuscripts (1821), trans. by James Edward Smith (external scan)

Works about Linnaeus

• The life of Sir Charles Linnaeus (1794, original Swedish work by D. H. Stoever; translated into English by Joseph Trapp)
• A general view of the writings of Linnaeus (1805, by Richard Pulteney, including a translation of Linnaeus' diaries) (external scan)
• "Linnæus, Carl von," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• Linnaeus, in the 1905 Little journeys to homes of great scientists [1]
• Lives of eminent zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus by William Macgillivray, (1834) (external scan)
• The life of Linnæus. by Daniel C. Carr, (1837) (external scan)
• Linnæus and Jussieu, or, The rise and progress of systematic botany by Daniel C. Carr (1844) (external scan)
• A life of Linnæus by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, (1858) (external scan)
• Linnaeus as a physician by Ludvig Hektoen, (1902) (external scan)
• A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus by Basil Harrington Soulsby, 1864-1933; (1907) (external scan)
• "The Place of Linnaeus in the History of Science" by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy in Popular Science Monthly, 71 (December 1907)
• "Linnæus," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Linnaeus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• Linnaeus, in the 1912 Biographies of Scientific Men
• "Linnæus, Carolus," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Linné, Karl von," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Linnæan System," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Dedications

• An Introduction to Botany (1776), trans. by James Lee

Footnotes

1. E.g. Cheeseman, T.F. (1906) - Manual of the New Zealand Flora