Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)

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Carolus Linnaeus. Line engraving by G.G. Endner, 1774.

Carolus Linnaeus. Line engraving by J. Brown, 1834, after M. Hoffman.

Carolus Linnaeus. Lithograph by P. R. Vignéron.

Carolus Linnaeus. Line engraving by P. Tanjé after C.A. Ehrensverd.

Carolus Linnaeus. Line engraving by W. H. Lizars, 1843, after M. Hoffmans.

Institutes of botany; : containing accurate, compleat and easy descriptions of all the known genera of plants: translated from the Latin of the celebrated Charles von Linné, Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Upsal; First physician to the King of Sweden, Knight of the Polar Star, and member of the most learned societies in Europe. To which are prefixed, I. A view of the ancient and present state of botany. II. A Synopsis, exhibiting the essential or striking characters which serve to discriminate genera of the same class and order; as likewise the secondary characters of each genus, or those derived from the port, habit or general appearance of the plants which compose it. / By Colin Milne, Reader on Botany in London, author of the Botanical Dictionary.

Synopsis of the annotations by Linnaeus and contemporaries in his library of printed books / by Spencer Savage.

Linné et la France, 1780-1850 / Pascal Duris.

Carolus Linnaeus. Stipple engraving by P. Roberts after L. Pasch after A. Roslin, 1775.

Bibliotheca botanica recensens libros plus mille de plantis huc usque editos, secundum systema auctorum naturale ... cum explicatione. Fundamentorum botanicorum [quae ... theoriam scientiae botanices per breves aphorismos tradunt] pars 1ma / [Carl von Linné].

Materia medica, liber I. De plantis. Secundum genera, loca, nomina, qualitates, vires, differentias, durationes, simplicia, modos, usus, synonyma, culturas, praeparata, potentias, composita, digestus / [Carl von Linné].

Philosophia botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum. Adjectis figuris aeneis / Caroli Linnaei.

Obstacula medicinae / [Johan Georg Beyersten].

The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the sensitive plant, explain'd ... In a letter to C. Linnaeus ... / [John Hill].

Dissertatio diaetetica in qua motus polychrestus, delineatur / [Christian Lado].

Philosophia botanica / Annotationibus, explanationibus, supplementis aucta cura, et opera C. Gomez Ortega ... Acc. J.A. Murray Nomina trivialia.

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Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778

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Obstacula medicinae / [Johan Georg Beyersten].

The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the sensitive plant, explain'd ... In a letter to C. Linnaeus ... / [John Hill].

Dissertatio diaetetica in qua motus polychrestus, delineatur / [Christian Lado].

Philosophia botanica / Annotationibus, explanationibus, supplementis aucta cura, et opera C. Gomez Ortega ... Acc. J.A. Murray Nomina trivialia.