He sorted and systematized and coined names for more than twelve thousand species. What do you call someone like that? The future father of modern taxonomy was born in Råshult, a village in southern ...

Broberg, a widely admired authority on Linnaeus, died in 2022. “The Man Who Organized Nature,” capably translated by Anna Paterson, is his last book, the summation of a lifetime of research. Among the ...

I’ve just spent the past 30 hours at the Chautauqua Institution, the lovely village of ideas out in western New York State. Each week they bring in people to talk about a theme, and this week is a ...

The struggle to comprehend existence is the struggle to comprehend origins. This also goes for the life of the mind, where ideas evolve as blindly and forcefully as in the life of the body. The ...

In this week’s special Europe issue, explore the rivers, lakes and shorelines of 10 favorite places; follow in the footsteps of Carl Linnaeus in Swedish Lapland (below); dine along the Adriatic coast ...

Bigger than Jesus has been the headline, and the news that Carl Linnaeus has been judged the most influential person on Wikipedia could be seen as the final triumph of the Enlightenment: religion ...

As a warm-up to a birthday celebration, it was sedate, and also spartan. There was no cake. There were no candles. There was just a bunch of middle-aged men standing around in the back room of the ...

Natural history museums don't usually tell their visitors, but they are riddled with wrongly identified specimens. Such errors even occur with important holdings, including plants and animals that ...