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Philosophia botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum, adjectis figuris aeneis.

Publication Details

Stockholm: Godofr. Kiesewetter, 1751 CE.

This work was "the first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical Latin".[1] It also contains Linnaeus's first published description of his binomial nomenclature.

"Philosophia Botanica represents a maturing of Linnaeus's thinking on botany and its theoretical foundations, being an elaboration of ideas first published in his Fundamenta Botanica (1736) and Critica Botanica (1737), and set out in a similar way as a series of stark and uncompromising principles (aphorismen). The book also establishes a basic botanical terminology" (Wikipedia article Philosophia Botanica, accessed 3-2020).

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

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Entry Number#11972
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/14179
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLphilosophia-botanica-in-qua-explicantur-fundamenta-botanica-cum-definitionibus

Geographic Context

Publication place: Stockholm