6 novembre 2018
biolog, « Linneaen poetry. Introduction », Biolographes, ID : 10670/1.t9tnrv
Pascal Duris, Hugues Marchal In the eighteenth century, the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné, or Linnaeus (1707-1778) made a major contribution to the life sciences, whose influence remains perceptible in the literature of the following century. The scale of his taxonomic undertaking was impressive. At a time when the inventory and classification of species were a crucial issue for the life sciences, he advocated a system of nomenclatures based on the use of Latin binomials and the categoris...