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Methods/Theory

Lisbet Koerner. Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1999. Pp. viii, 298. $39.95.

This unconventional scholarly biography of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) is not primarily about issues of classification in natural history, gender-biased concepts of plant sexuality, or Eurocentric categorization of humans. For fundamental issues in Linnaeus's scientific work, the indispensable English accounts remain Tore Frängsmyr, Linnaeus, The Man and His Work (2d ed. 1994) and Gunnar Broberg, Linnaeus: Progress and Prospects in Linnaean Research (1980). In an extraordinarily thorough study of Linnaeus's Swedish and Latin publications, manuscript correspondence, diaries, and lecture notes, Lisbet Koerner relates the quest for natural knowledge to the ultimate goals of nation-building and eighteenth-century cameralist economics. Just as Isaac Newton valued alchemy and Biblical exegesis as much as natural philosophy, Linnaeus, according to the author, valued political economy as much as plant classification. . . .

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