Classes Plantarum was written by Swedish botanist, physician

Physician

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, zoologist and naturalist

Naturalist

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 Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).
The book is an elaboration of aphorisms 53–77 of his Fundamenta Botanica

Fundamenta Botanica

Fundamenta Botanica was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus and issued both as a separate work and part of the Bibliotheca Botanica.This book states, for the first time, Linnaeus's ideas for the reformation of botanical taxonomy...

 and a complementary volume to his Species Plantarum

Species Plantarum

Species Plantarum was first published in 1753, as a two-volume work by Carl Linnaeus. Its prime importance is perhaps that it is the primary starting point of plant nomenclature as it exists today. This means that the first names to be considered validly published in botany are those that appear...

, Genera Plantarum

Genera Plantarum

Genera Plantarum is a publication of Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus . The fifth edition served as a complementary volume to Species Plantarum . Article 13 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature states that "It is agreed to associate generic names which first appear in Linnaeus'...

, Critica Botanica

Critica Botanica

Critica Botanica was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus . The book was published in Germany when Linnaeus was twenty-nine with a discursus by the botanist Johannes Browallius , bishop of Åbo...

, and Philosophia Botanica

Philosophia Botanica

Philosophia Botanica was published by the Swedish naturalist and physician Carolus Linnaeus who greatly influenced the development of botanical taxonomy and systematics in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is "the first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical Latin"...

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Bibliographic details

Full bibliographic details including exact dates of publication, pagination, editions, facsimiles, brief outline of contents, location of copies, secondary sources, translations, reprints, manuscripts, travelogues, and commentaries are given in Stafleu and Cowan's Taxonomic Literature.

See also

Critica Botanica

Critica Botanica

Critica Botanica was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus . The book was published in Germany when Linnaeus was twenty-nine with a discursus by the botanist Johannes Browallius , bishop of Åbo...

Fundamenta Botanica

Fundamenta Botanica

Fundamenta Botanica was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus and issued both as a separate work and part of the Bibliotheca Botanica.This book states, for the first time, Linnaeus's ideas for the reformation of botanical taxonomy...

Species Plantarum

Species Plantarum

Species Plantarum was first published in 1753, as a two-volume work by Carl Linnaeus. Its prime importance is perhaps that it is the primary starting point of plant nomenclature as it exists today. This means that the first names to be considered validly published in botany are those that appear...

Genera Plantarum

Genera Plantarum

Genera Plantarum is a publication of Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus . The fifth edition served as a complementary volume to Species Plantarum . Article 13 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature states that "It is agreed to associate generic names which first appear in Linnaeus'...

Philosophia Botanica

Philosophia Botanica

Philosophia Botanica was published by the Swedish naturalist and physician Carolus Linnaeus who greatly influenced the development of botanical taxonomy and systematics in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is "the first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical Latin"...

Systema Naturae

Systema Naturae

The book was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus. The first edition was published in 1735...

Carl Linnaeus