Carl Linnaeus, Pioneer of Modern Botany combines the story of his life with a clear exposition and evaluation of his contribution to botanical science.

Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism—to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well as his use of language resonating with erotic allusions, provoked intense public debate over the morality of botanical study. And the...(展开全部)

Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism—to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well as his use of language resonating with erotic allusions, provoked intense public debate over the morality of botanical study. And the...(展开全部)

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维尔弗里德·布兰特（Wilfrid Blunt）是伊顿公学资深的绘画老师，皇家艺术大学和伦敦林奈协会的会员，著有多部传记作品和关于欧洲艺术与植物学的著作。他的《植物学插图艺术》已经成为植物科学画的标准的参考读物。逝于1987。 译者：徐保军，1983年生。2012年毕业于北京大学哲学系，获博士学位。现为北京林业大学人文学院副教授。研究方向为科学哲学、科学思想史、博物学、生态文明。

Drawing on letters, poems, notebooks, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koemer tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, this book also recounts for the first time Linnaeus' grand and bizarre econ...(展开全部)

This biography of Gauss, by far the most comprehensive in English, is the work of a professor of German, G. Waldo Dunnington, who devoted most of his scholarly career to studying the life of Germany's greatest mathematician. The author was inspired to pursue this project at the age of twelve when he learned from his teacher in Missouri that no full biography of Gauss existed at...(展开全部)