Carl Linnaeus 1707 1778 a Swedish botanist, founder of modern taxonomy.
Portrait of Carl Linnaeus 1707 1778 a Swedish botanist Linnaeus was the founder of the modern taxonomy or the classification system for animals and plants. He divided flowering plants into classes according to there stamens and orders according to the number of pistils in Systema Naturae. The Natural World which was published in 1735. In 1749 he invented the binomial nomenclature by which each plant was given a latin generic noun followed by a specific adjective. Linnaeus opposed the evolutionary theory that no new species had been formed since Creation and none had become extinct.
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