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- catalog abstract ""Lisbet Koerner tells the story of one of the most famous naturalists in history, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, Linnaeus also recounts for the first time his grand and bizarre economic projects: to "teach" tea, saffron, and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and to domesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals." "Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within the borders of his nation by growing colonial cash crops in the North. Koerner shows us the often surprising ways he embarked on this project. Her narrative goes against the grain of Linnaean scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his day. At the same time, his attempts to organize a state economy according to principles of science prefigured an idea that has become one of the defining features of modernity. Linnaeus will be of interest to historians of the Enlightenment, historians of economics, and historians of science."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11262324.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within the borders of his nation by growing colonial cash crops in the North. Koerner shows us the often surprising ways he embarked on this project. Her narrative goes against the grain of Linnaean scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his day. At the same time, his attempts to organize a state economy according to principles of science prefigured an idea that has become one of the defining features of modernity. Linnaeus will be of interest to historians of the Enlightenment, historians of economics, and historians of science."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Lisbet Koerner tells the story of one of the most famous naturalists in history, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, Linnaeus also recounts for the first time his grand and bizarre economic projects: to "teach" tea, saffron, and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and to domesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction. "To Apply Nature to Economics and Vice Versa" -- 1. "A Geography of Nature": Natural Philosophy -- 2. "A Clapper into a Bell": Floral Names -- 3. "The Lapp Is Our Teacher": Medicine and Ethnography -- 4. "God's Endless Larder": Theology -- 5. "A New World -- Pepper, Ginger, Cardamon": Economic Theory -- 6. "Should Coconuts Chance to Come into My Hands": Acclimatization Experiments -- 7. "The Lord of All of Sweden's Clams": A Local Life -- 8. "His Farmers Dressed in Mourning": The Fate of Linnaeus' Ideas in Sweden -- Conclusion. "Without Science Our Herrings Would Still Be Caught by Foreigners": A Local Modernity -- App. A. Chronology of Linnaeus and Linnaeana -- App. B. Biographical References.".
- catalog extent "viii, 298 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Linnaeus.".
- catalog identifier "0674097459 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Linnaeus.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Linnaeus.".
- catalog spatial "Sweden".
- catalog subject "580/.92 B 21".
- catalog subject "Botanists Sweden Biography.".
- catalog subject "Economics.".
- catalog subject "Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.".
- catalog subject "Naturalists Sweden Biography.".
- catalog subject "Nature.".
- catalog subject "QH44 .K58 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction. "To Apply Nature to Economics and Vice Versa" -- 1. "A Geography of Nature": Natural Philosophy -- 2. "A Clapper into a Bell": Floral Names -- 3. "The Lapp Is Our Teacher": Medicine and Ethnography -- 4. "God's Endless Larder": Theology -- 5. "A New World -- Pepper, Ginger, Cardamon": Economic Theory -- 6. "Should Coconuts Chance to Come into My Hands": Acclimatization Experiments -- 7. "The Lord of All of Sweden's Clams": A Local Life -- 8. "His Farmers Dressed in Mourning": The Fate of Linnaeus' Ideas in Sweden -- Conclusion. "Without Science Our Herrings Would Still Be Caught by Foreigners": A Local Modernity -- App. A. Chronology of Linnaeus and Linnaeana -- App. B. Biographical References.".
- catalog title "Linnaeus : nature and nation / Lisbet Koerner.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".