About “Philosophia Botanica”
Philosophia Botanica was written by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish naturalist and physician who shaped botanical taxonomy and systematics in the 18th and 19th centuries. Published as the first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical Latin, the book includes Linnaeus's first published description of his binomial nomenclature system. This system introduced a standardized way to name plants using two parts, forming the basis for modern biological classification. The work played a key role in organizing and communicating botanical knowledge during a time of growing scientific interest in plant life. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1751