Download or read book Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica written by Carl von Linné and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century botanist Carl von Linné, more commonly known as Linnaeus, was the inventor of the binary nomenclature now standard in biology. His Philosophia Botanica represents a key stage in the evolution of the scientific classification and naming of plants, and is a classic in the history of science and botany. Amazingly, no complete translation into English has been undertaken since 1775 prior to this edition.