Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus: with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History
Aristotle · en
All systems flourish and fade. The mineralogy of Linnaeus has perished;
his zoology, cut down to the root, has sent forth a profusion of
luxuriant shoots; and although his botany maintains as yet a strong
claim upon the admiration of the lovers of nature, a fairer plant has
sprung up beside it, which promises a richer harvest of golden fruits.
But should the period ever arrive when all that belonged to him of mere
system and technicology shall be obliterated, he will not the less be
remembered as a bright luminary in the dark hemisphere of natural
science, which served for a time to throw a useful light around, and led
observers to surer paths of observation than had previously been known.
SECTION XII.
_Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus._
Hortus Uplandicus--Florula Lapponica--Systema
Naturae--Hypothesis Nova de Febrium Intermittentium
Causa--Fundamenta Botanica--Bibliotheca Botanica--Musa
Cliffortiana--Genera Plantarum--Viridarium
Cliffortianum--Caroli Linnaei Corollarium Generum
Plantarum--Flora Lapponica--Hortus Cliffortianus--Critica
Botanica--Petri Artedi, Sueci Medici, Ichthyologia--Classes
Plantarum, seu Systema Plantarum--Oratio de Memorabilibus in
Insectis--Orbis Eruditi Judicium de C. Linnaei
Scriptis--Oratio de Peregrinationum intra Patriam
Necessitate--Oratio de Telluris Habitabilis
Incremento--Flora Suecica--Animalia Sueciae--Oelaendska och
Gothlaendska Resa--Fauna Sueciae Regni--Flora
Zeylanica--Waestgoetha Resa--Hortus Upsaliensis--Materia
Medica Regni Vegetabilis--Materia Medica Regni
Animalis--Skaenska Resa--Philosophia Botanica--Materia Medica
Regni Lapidei--Species Plantarum--Museum Tessinianum--Museum
Regis Adolphi Suecorum--Frederici Hasselquist Iter
Palestinum--Petri Loeflingii Iter Hispanicum--Oratio
Regia--Disquisitio Quaestionis, ab Acad. Imper. Scientiarum
Petropolitanae, in annum 1759 pro Praeemio, Propositae--Genera
Morborum--Museum Reginae Louisae Ulricae--Clavis Medica
Duplex--Mantissa Plantarum--Mantissa Plantarum
altera--Deliciae Naturae--Essays printed in the Transactions
of the Academies of Upsal and Stockholm.
1. Hortus Uplandicus, sive enumeratio plantarum exoticarum Uplandiae, quae
in hortis vel agris coluntur, imprimis autem in horto Academico
Upsaliensi. Upsal, 1731. 160 pages 8vo. This is the first work published
by Linnaeus, and in it the plants are already disposed according to the
sexual system.
2. Florula Lapponica, quae continet catalogum plantarum, quas per
provincias Lapponicas Westrobothnienses observavit C. Linnaeus. It was
written in 1732, and inserted in the Acta Litteraria Sueciae of the same
year, but only in part, the second section having appeared in the same
collection in 1735.