1737 in Science - 1737 Earthquakes, Genera Plantarum, Kamchatka Earthquakes (Paperback)

Chapters: 1737 Earthquakes, Genera Plantarum, Kamchatka Earthquakes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Genera Plantarum (Leiden, 1737) is a publication of Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (17011778): it serves as a complementary volume to Species Plantarum (2 vols., 1753). The first edition of Genera Plantarum contains brief descriptions of the 935 plant genera that were known to him at that time. Genera Plantarum employed his sexual system of classification, in which plants are grouped according to the number of stamens and stigmas in the flower. The fifth edition of Genera Plantarum was revised by Linnaeus and published in 1753 shortly after Species Plantarum: in the 16 years between the first and fifth editions the number of genera had increased to 1105. Linnaeus established the system of binomial nomenclature through the widespread acceptance of his list of plants in the definitive 1753 edition of Species Plantarum, which is now taken as the starting point for all botanical nomenclature. Genera Plantarum was an integral part of this first stepping stone towards a universal standardised biological nomenclature. From 1735 to 1738 Linnaeus worked in the Netherlands where he was personal physician to George Clifford (16851760) a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchantbanker with an impressive garden containing four large glasshouses that were filled with warmth-loving plants from overseas. Linnaeus was enthralled by these collections and prepared a detailed systematic catalogue of the plants in the garden, which he published in 1738 as Hortus Cliffortianus. This list was published with engravings by Georg Ehret (17081770) and Jan Wandelaer (16901759). Linnaeus included Ehret's Tabella (an illustration of his "Sexual System" of plant classification) in his...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2538034