1735 (first edition) / Europe
Linnaeus arranges nature in tables
The first Systema naturae arranged animals, plants and minerals in tables, offering naturalists a shared framework that later editions continued to revise.
The story
Published in Leiden, Linnaeus’s first Systema naturae organized natural objects into ranked groups. Familiar binomial conventions developed further in Species plantarum (1753) and the tenth Systema naturae (1758); they should not all be dated to 1735. Specimen collectors and illustrators also sustained this work. These classifications were not yet modern evolutionary trees.
Connections and context
Comparable descriptions helped naturalists exchange knowledge across regions. Classification later supported evolutionary research, although Linnaeus’s tables were not a theory of common descent.
Dates and precision
1735 (first edition) Documented date
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Leiden
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Bibliography
- The Linnean Society: Naming Nature
- The Living World in Eleven Pages: Systema Naturae (1735)
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