Carl+Linnaeus

 Botanist- (bo-tan-ist) Linnaeus was a type of scientist called a botanist. A botanist is someone who works with and studies plants. A botanist may discover many new plants unknown to the rest of the world. May 23, 1707
 * Carl Linnaeus **//__(li-**nee**-us) __//
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 * Death **

1778

R //åshalt, Sweden //
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He was an important botanist. He founded more than 100 new plant species in his whole life time. He named all of the plants that he found in his new and improved Latin names.
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Linnaeus worked out new scientific, Latin, names for different plants. He thought that the names that other scientists had given the plants were not describing them well enough so he made up a new code for plant names. He used Latin words that described the looks of the plants, and sometimes even what they smelled like.
 * Science Explained **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1707- Carl Linnaeus was born. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1728- Switched to Uppsala University. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1738- Became a medicine and botanist professor at Uppsala. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1735 -1738- Studied and published Systema Naturae in the Netherlands. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1740s- Sent on journeys to find and classify plants and animals. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1750s and 60s- Continued to classify plants and animals <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1778- Carl Linnaeus died
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Did you know? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Published a book called Hortus Cliffortianus.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Married Sara Lisa Moraea.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He had 6 children.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">One of his children died at the age of three.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Carl von Linné was his Latin name.


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