What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing

In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus's life and career in readable, relatable prose. As...
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Author: Karen Magnuson Beil
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What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing by Beil, Karen Magnuson

What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing

Dhs. 144.40

What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing

Dhs. 144.40
Author: Karen Magnuson Beil
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus's life and career in readable, relatable prose. As a boy, Linnaeus hated school and had little interest in taking up the religious profession his family had chosen. Though he struggled through Latin and theology classes, Linnaeus was an avid student of the natural world and explored the school's gardens and woods, transfixed by the properties of different plants. At twenty-five, on a solo expedition to the Scandinavian Mountains, Linnaeus documented and described dozens of new species. As a medical student in Holland, he moved among leading scientific thinkers and had access to the best collections of plants and animals in Europe. What Linnaeus found was a world with no consistent system for describing and naming living things--a situation he methodically set about changing. The Linnaean system for classifying plants and animals, developed and refined over the course of his life, is the foundation of modern scientific taxonomy, and inspired and guided generations of scientists.

What Linnaeus Saw is rich with biographical anecdotes--from his attempt to identify a mysterious animal given him by the king to successfully growing a rare and exotic banana plant in Amsterdam to debunking stories of dragons and phoenixes. Thoroughly researched and generously illustrated, it offers a vivid and insightful glimpse into the life of one of modern science's founding thinkers.



Author: Karen Magnuson Beil
Publisher: Norton Young Readers
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781324004684
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2019 pg. 152
Booklist 10/01/2019 pg. 36
School Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 101

About the Author
Beil, Karen Magnuson: - Karen Magnuson Beil has worked as a news reporter and science writer. Her work takes her on exciting adventures--such as paddling through a marsh with a muskrat farmer and climbing a tower to "interview" New York's first reintroduced bald eagle. Beil lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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