Linking Linnaeus

On December 12, Edward O. Wilson spoke on "The Great Linnean Enterprise" at the Linnean Society. I think it is, however, a retelling of another lecture he gave in 2004 for the American Philosophical Society as part of a symposium, "Science, Art, and Knowledge: Practicing Natural History from the Enlightenment to the Twenty-first Century" (papers given at this symposium are available online as pdfs here, including Wilson's "The Linnaean Enterprise: Past, Present, and Future." Deb of A Celebration of Mundanity gives her thoughts on the 2007 lecture here, and the Linnean Society has a schedule of upcoming 2008 programs here.

Why is Linnaeus on The Beagle Project Blog? Also read about the Three Wise Men (and here).

Australia's Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts offers a poster to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Linnaeus' birth.

The most recent newsletter of the History of Science Society has two articles on Linnaeus, one about the exhibit, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America (see here also), the other about the Linnaeus correspondence project.

2007 marks several new books about Linnaeus: Order out of Chaos: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (or here) from the Linnean Society, A Passion for Systems: Linnaeus and the Dream of Order in Nature from Linnaues 2007, and an ambitious publication from the IK Foundation & Company, The Linnaeus Apostles -Global Science & Adventure (8 Volumes).

[Picture: Linnaeus by Gabbster at deviantArt]