In this same edition, he introduced two-part names (see binomen) for animal species, something that he had done for plant species (see binary name) in the 1753 publication of Species Plantarum.
Also, as the work progressed, he made changes: in the first edition, whales were classified as fishes, following the work of Linnaeus' friend and "father of ichthyology" Peter Artedi in the 10th edition, published in 1758, whales were moved into the mammal class. It grew from eleven very large pages in the first edition (1735) to 2,400 pages in the 12th edition (1766–1768). For instance, humans were for the first time placed together with other primates, as Anthropomorpha.Īs a result of the popularity of the work, and the number of new specimens sent to him from around the world, Linnaeus kept publishing new and ever-expanding editions of his work.
The classification of animals was more natural. He is frequently quoted to have said: "God created, Linnaeus organized" (Latin: Deus creavit, Linnaeus disposuit). Linnaeus believed in God's creation, and that there were no deeper relationships to be expressed. His sexual system, where species with the same number of stamens were treated in the same group, was convenient but in his view artificial. Linnaeus developed his classification of the plant kingdom in an attempt to describe and understand the natural world as a reflection of the logic of God's creation. Stearn, "Even in 1753 he believed that the number of species of plants in the whole world would hardly reach 10,000 in his whole career he named about 7,700 species of flowering plants." According to the historian of botany William T. Linnaeus's Systema Naturae lists only about 10,000 species of organisms, of which about 6,000 are plants and 4,236 are animals. In it, he outlined his ideas for the hierarchical classification of the natural world, dividing it into the animal kingdom ( regnum animale), the plant kingdom ( regnum vegetabile), and the " mineral kingdom" ( regnum lapideum).
As was customary for the scientific literature of its day, the book was published in Latin. Linnaeus (later known as "Carl von Linné", after his ennoblement in 1761) published the first edition of Systema Naturae in the year 1735, during his stay in the Netherlands. Since at least the early 20th century, zoologists have commonly recognized this as the last edition belonging to this series. Another again enhanced work in the same style and titled " Systema Naturae" was published by Johann Friedrich Gmelin between 17. In 1766–1768 Linnaeus published the much enhanced 12th edition, the last under his authorship. The tenth edition of this book (1758) is considered the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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The full title of the 10th edition (1758), which was the most important one, was Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis or translated: "System of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera and species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places". Although the system, now known as binomial nomenclature, was partially developed by the Bauhin brothers, Gaspard and Johann, Linnaeus was first to use it consistently throughout his book. Systema Naturae (originally in Latin written Systema Naturæ with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
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