Carolus Linnaeus's Influence On Modern Science

Carolus Linnaeus, also known as Carl Linnaeus, was a Swedish Botanist from the 18th century (Müller-Wille “Carolus Linnaeus”). He was most known for organizing life using binomial nomenclature, now known as scientific names. For this reason he is called the Father of Taxonomy (Waggoner “Carl Linnaeus”). Carl Linnaeus has greatly impacted modern science by providing a means for classification of organisms, allowing for managing of biodiversity.
Carolus Linnaeus was born on May 23rd, 1707 in Stenbrohult, Sweden (Waggoner “Carl Linnaeus”). His family lived in a poor province in southern Sweden named Småland (Müller-Wille “Carolus Linnaeus”). His father was a Lutheran minister and an amateur botanist, where Carl first developed his love for plants at an early age. His father

After a year of school, he transferred to Uppsala University, the best school in Sweden, in pursuit of a better course (Waggoner “Carl Linnaeus”). In 1732, Linnaeus was sent as a naturalist to Lapland through the university in search of potential substitutes for expensive imports due to bad trade and famines in Sweden (Moberg “The Life of Linnaeus”). Upon his return, he went to University of Harderwijk in Holland to finish his medical degree, since no graduate program was offered in Sweden (Waggoner “Carl Linnaeus”). Thanks to Linnaeus’s schooling, many future events were able to happen. Carolus Linnaeus’s early life and schooling was to thank for much of his lifetime work. Carl Linnaeus published Systema Naturae in the town of Harderwijk in 1735 after receiving his medical degree. This contained all documented species grouped into three kingdoms: plants, animals, and stones (Müller-Wille “Carolus Linnaeus”). Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, a French naturalist, was working on a similar project, but highly doubted natural groupings among species (Müller-Wille “Carolus Linnaeus”). For the next three years, Carl Linnaeus visited biological gardens and documented