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The Man Who Organised Nature: The Life of Linnaeus
by Gunnar Broberg, translated by Anna Paterson.
Princeton, 484 pp., £35, July 2023,978 0 691 21342 2 Show More
by Gunnar Broberg, translated by Anna Paterson.
Princeton, 484 pp., £35, July 2023,
“... Third World War: not just the history of botany but its modern foundations in Linnaeus’s legacy.Gunnar Broberg’s biography of Linnaeus, originally published in Swedish in 2019, is a portrait of the man who, more than any other, has come to epitomise Enlightenment science and even, under the influence of Michel Foucault’s Les Mots et les choses ... ”
