Cover of the tenth edition of Linnaeus's Systema Naturae (1758).

Linnaeus's table of the Animal Kingdom from the first edition of Systema Naturae (1735).

The book Systema Naturae was one of the major works of the Swedish doctor of medicine Carolus Linnaeus. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for Its full title is Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, 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 [generic] characters, [specific] differences, synonyms, places".

The tenth edition of this book is considered the starting point of zoological nomenclature. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is a set of rules in Zoology that have one fundamental aim to provide the maximum universality and continuity in the naming

Overview

Linnaeus published the Systema Naturae in the year 1735, during his stay in the Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands As customary for the scientific literature of its day, the book was published in Latin. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. In it, he outlines 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). Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. A mineral is a naturally occurring substance formed through geological processes that has a characteristic chemical composition a highly ordered atomic structure and specific

The classification of the plant kingdom in the book was not a natural one, but of convenience: it followed Linnaeus' new sexual system where species with the same number of stamens were treated in the same group. The stamen ( Plural stamina or stamens, from Latin stamen meaning "thread of the warp " is the male Linnaeus believed that he was classifying God's creation and was not trying to express evolutionary relationships. God is the principal or sole Deity in Religions and other belief systems that worship one deity. eVolution is the third Album by eLDee, it was due to be released in 2008 The classification of animals was more natural. For instance, humans were for the first time placed together with other primates (as Anthropomorpha). Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus A primate is a member of the biological order Primates ( Latin: "prime first rank" the group that contains Lemurs the Aye-aye

In view of the popularity of the work Linnaeus kept publishing new and ever expanding editions, growing from eleven pages in the first edition (1735) to three thousand pages in the final and thirteenth edition (1770). Year 1735 ( MDCCXXXV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1770 ( MDCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Friday Also, as the work progressed he made changes: In the first edition whales were erroneously classified as fishes; in the 10th edition, published in 1758, the whales were moved to the mammals. Whales are marine mammals which are neither Dolphins (ie members of the families Delphinidae or Platanistoidae) nor Porpoises Orcas Fish are aquatic Vertebrate animals that are typically ectothermic (previously Cold-blooded) covered with scales, and equipped with two Whales are marine mammals which are neither Dolphins (ie members of the families Delphinidae or Platanistoidae) nor Porpoises Orcas Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands In this same edition he introduced two part names (see binomen) for animal species, something he had done for plant species (see binary name) in the 1753 publication of Species Plantarum. In zoology, a binomen, or binominal name is the name of a species A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN and if the plant is a Cultigen, the Species Plantarum ("The Species of Plants" was first published in 1753, as a two-volume work by Carl Linnaeus.

External links

• Linné on line
• 12th edition (in three volumes) online at gallica
• 13th edition (Volume I, 532 pages) online at Google Book Search