Linnaeus: Nature and Nation
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Carl Linnaeus was one of Sweden s greatest scientists and the man who, almost 250 years ago, created the binomial scientific nomenclature still in use today. Harvard historian of science Koerner takes her place alongside several other Linnaeus biographers with her scholarly look at his life and times, including some of the scientist s more foolish projects. Koerner s work is "both a biography and a case study of the relation between natural knowledge and political economy in the early Enlightenment." Thus, she focuses on Linnaeus s attempts to use science to enrich the failing Swedish economy. Linnaeus came of age in the 18th century after Sweden had suffered a series of serious military defeats and famines and at a time when the country s trade deficit threatened to destabilize its political environment. Believing that it was possible to make Sweden economically independent through effective cultivation of the world s natural resources, Linnaeus worked diligently to import a wide array of plants and animalsAsuch as saffron and teaAhoping to acclimate them to the harsh Scandinavian climate. Unfortunately, none of his experiments were successful, and Linnaeus s utilitarian approach to science had to be discarded. While Koerner s perspective is interesting and yields some new insights, her reliance on academic jargon makes for very difficult reading. (Dec.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Koerner s biography of Carl Linnaeus (best remembered for his work in botany and as the originator of a taxonomic classification system of plants) shows that this scientist was interested in a great deal more than just vegetation. Placing Linnaeus s botanical studies in the larger context of his life s work, Koerner explores his ideas about the relationship between nature and national economics. Linnaeus comes across as a hopeless optimist and a schemer who employed a host of tricks (exaggeration, lies, rhetoric, and self-promotion) in his pursuit of a state economy modeled on the principles of the natural world; his grand and often absurd economic suggestions (growing tea and other exotic plants in the Arctic tundra, raising guinea pigs as farm animals) were all attempts to make Sweden s economy less dependent on imported goods. Throughout, Koerner wisely relies on passages from Linnaeus s own writing to illustrate her arguments; much of what she recounts would otherwise be hard to believe. And overall, her arguments are well crafted: she deftly balances his shortcomings against his good intentions and knowledge. Recommended for large public libraries and all academic libraries.AMarianne Stowell Bracke, Univ. of Houston Libs. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Author(s) :Lisbet Koerner
Publish Year :1999 Publisher : Harvard University Press
You can check by ISBN10/ISBN13 : 0674097459/9780674097452
Pages :157
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