How the effort to maintain a sense of community among Swedish immigrants caused a 150 ton statue to take a walk. #Chicago #Swede #monuments #HydePark #Linneaus https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/hyde-park-stories-linn-statue/article_91a5fe48-2819-11ee-b398-b7c3a7999476.html

Carl Linneaus invented modern scientific nomenclature and personally named and described ten thousand species. #Poetry #Science #History #ScientificNomenclature #Linneaus (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1735n.html)

@Edent #Linneaus in 1758 divided mankind into a range of races (or subspecies, the terms were indistinguishable): ferus (goes on all 4s), americanus (red), asianus (yellow or sallow), europeanus (white), africanus (black). Each is attributed one of the medieval humours.

Original Latin & Turton's English translation of 50 years later.

Images from #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary