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A Tour in Lapland
English, Latin (translation)
306 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1732
About the author
Carl Linnaeus
1,257 books72 followersSwedish botanist Carl Linnaeus or Carolus Linnaeus, also called Carl von Linné, founded the modern classification, presented in his influential work
Systema Naturae
, for plants and animals.
This physician and zoologist laid the biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. People know and also consider him as the father of taxonomy and also ecology.
Linnaeus received most of his higher education at Uppsala, where he began giving lectures in 1730. From 1735, he lived abroad, studied, and also published a first edition in the Netherlands. He then returned in 1738 as professor of medicine at Uppsala. In the 1740s, people sent him on several journeys to find organisms. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect even minerals and wrote several volumes. People most acclaimed him of the scientists in Europe.
The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth." The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly." Author Johan August Strindberg later wrote: "Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist". People called and complimeted Linnaeus, princeps botanicorum (prince of botanists) and as "the Pliny of the north."
According to German biologist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, the question of origin of man began with Linnaeus. He described humans just as any other species and thus helped later research in the history.
Linnaeus with the first edition began listing humans among the primates. During time at Hartekamp, he took the opportunity to examine several monkeys and noted similarities with man. He pointed out basically the same anatomy and found no other differences except speech. Thus, he placed man and monkeys under the same category, Anthropomorpha, meaning "manlike."
The twofold theological concerns thus arose. Putting man at the same level as monkeys or apes lowered the assumed spiritually higher position in the great chain. Second, because the Bible says that God created man in His image (theomorphism), if He not distinctly and separately designed humans, then He well created monkeys and apes in His image, which many persons ably accepted not. Asserting man as that type caused the conflict between worldviews, based on science and theology; this conflict simmered for a century until the much greater and still ongoing creation–evolution controversy began in earnest when Charles Darwin in 1859 published On the Origin of Species .
Major celebrations marked anniversaries of birth of Linnaeus, especially in centennial years.
Numerous postage stamps and banknotes bore his image. Numerous statues honor him in countries around the world. Since 1888, the Linnean society of London awarded the medal for excellence in zoology. The parliament approved merger of Växjö University and Kalmar college on 1 January 2010 to Linnaeus University. People named the twinflower genus Linnaea, the crater Linné on the Moon and the cobalt sulfide mineral linnaeite.
This physician and zoologist laid the biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. People know and also consider him as the father of taxonomy and also ecology.
Linnaeus received most of his higher education at Uppsala, where he began giving lectures in 1730. From 1735, he lived abroad, studied, and also published a first edition in the Netherlands. He then returned in 1738 as professor of medicine at Uppsala. In the 1740s, people sent him on several journeys to find organisms. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect even minerals and wrote several volumes. People most acclaimed him of the scientists in Europe.
The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth." The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly." Author Johan August Strindberg later wrote: "Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist". People called and complimeted Linnaeus, princeps botanicorum (prince of botanists) and as "the Pliny of the north."
According to German biologist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, the question of origin of man began with Linnaeus. He described humans just as any other species and thus helped later research in the history.
Linnaeus with the first edition began listing humans among the primates. During time at Hartekamp, he took the opportunity to examine several monkeys and noted similarities with man. He pointed out basically the same anatomy and found no other differences except speech. Thus, he placed man and monkeys under the same category, Anthropomorpha, meaning "manlike."
The twofold theological concerns thus arose. Putting man at the same level as monkeys or apes lowered the assumed spiritually higher position in the great chain. Second, because the Bible says that God created man in His image (theomorphism), if He not distinctly and separately designed humans, then He well created monkeys and apes in His image, which many persons ably accepted not. Asserting man as that type caused the conflict between worldviews, based on science and theology; this conflict simmered for a century until the much greater and still ongoing creation–evolution controversy began in earnest when Charles Darwin in 1859 published On the Origin of Species .
Major celebrations marked anniversaries of birth of Linnaeus, especially in centennial years.
Numerous postage stamps and banknotes bore his image. Numerous statues honor him in countries around the world. Since 1888, the Linnean society of London awarded the medal for excellence in zoology. The parliament approved merger of Växjö University and Kalmar college on 1 January 2010 to Linnaeus University. People named the twinflower genus Linnaea, the crater Linné on the Moon and the cobalt sulfide mineral linnaeite.
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March 26, 2017
Resan skedde till häst och till fots. Längs med den svenska kusten upp till Västerbotten. Ett misslyckat försök att ta sig förbi Lycksele. Vidare till Norrbotten och därifrån västerut över fjällen ända till norska havet. Sedan tillbaka till Luleå och norrut till Torneå och Kemi. Därefter finska kusten ner till Åbo samt båt via Åland till Roslagen. Hela tiden beskrivande växter, djur och mineraler. Folklivet beskrivet med seder och bruk samt bostäder och redskap. Lapparna beskrivna ganska noggrant, vilket jag gillar eftersom jag ju ville lära mig mer om Lappland och samer i allmänhet. En stor del av boken är på latin, med svensk översättning efteråt, vilket är lite trögt att läsa men rätt så intressant. Boken bevarar mycket av sjuttonhundratalssvenskans stavning och särskrivning och en hel del gamla bortglömda ord. En bok som jag gillade.
Nu har boken kommit: Så Carl von Linné ger sig av på en resa betald av akademin till Lappland, Sveriges mest outforskade landskap på den tiden. Starten går från Uppsala då han är 25 år och ett dygn gammal.
Nu har bokcirkeln kommit igång på jobbet. Vi valde själv böcker efter ett tema: sånt jag aldrig normalt läser. Jag valde skildringar av upptäcksresor.
Jag fastnade för Linnés Lapplandsresan för att jag inte läst något av honom som är en av de världsberömdaste svenskarna samt att jag vill veta mer om Lappland som jag besökt några gånger (och nog kommer att återvända till en dag). Jag har beställt boken från Adlibris och kommer att få den i nästa vecka.
Nu har boken kommit: Så Carl von Linné ger sig av på en resa betald av akademin till Lappland, Sveriges mest outforskade landskap på den tiden. Starten går från Uppsala då han är 25 år och ett dygn gammal.
Nu har bokcirkeln kommit igång på jobbet. Vi valde själv böcker efter ett tema: sånt jag aldrig normalt läser. Jag valde skildringar av upptäcksresor.
Jag fastnade för Linnés Lapplandsresan för att jag inte läst något av honom som är en av de världsberömdaste svenskarna samt att jag vill veta mer om Lappland som jag besökt några gånger (och nog kommer att återvända till en dag). Jag har beställt boken från Adlibris och kommer att få den i nästa vecka.
July 12, 2018
At is best along the Kungsleden
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March 9, 2014
Man muss Bio- oder Zoologe sein, um das Buch wirklich zu schätzen.
April 13, 2013
schwierig, da altes schwedisch ;-)
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