Works

Linnaeus' corpus was written entirely in Latin and Swedish, but some works have been translated into English:

• Institutions of entomology: being a translation of Linnaeus's Ordines et genera insectorum; or, Systematic arrangement of insects; by Thomas Pattinson Yeats; 1773 (external scan)
• The elements of botany. Being a translation of the Philosophia botanica, and other treatises of the celebrated Linnæus, by Hugh Rose; 1775 (external scan)
• An introduction to botany, containing an explanation of the theory of that science, extracted from the works of Dr. Linnaeus (1776, by James Lee)
• A system of vegetables, 1782 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Darwin, Erasmus (1783), A System of Vegetables

  —translation of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium (13th edition)

• Darwin, Erasmus (1787) The Families of Plants

  —translation of Linnaeus' Genera Plantarum (last edition)

• An introduction to botany; extracted from the works of Dr. Linnaeus by James Lee, 1715-1795; (1788) (external scan)
• The animal kingdom, or zoological system, (1792) (external scan)
• A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals. Translator William Turton, 1762-1835 (1802) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Lachesis Lapponica, or a tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus (1811, translated by James Edward Smith)
• A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus and other naturalists from the original manuscripts (1821, two volumes, translated by James Edward Smith) (external scan)
• Elements of Natural History; translated by Charles Stewart. 1801 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• An introduction to the science of botany: by Lee, James, 1715-1795; (1810) (external scan)

Works about Linnaeus

• The life of Sir Charles Linnaeus (1794, original Swedish work by D. H. Stoever; translated into English by Joseph Trapp)
• A general view of the writings of Linnaeus (1805, by Richard Pulteney, including a translation of Linnaeus' diaries) (external scan)
• "Linnæus, Carl von," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• Linnaeus, in the 1905 Little journeys to homes of great scientists
• Lives of eminent zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus by William Macgillivray, (1834) (external scan)
• The life of Linnæus. by Daniel C. Carr, (1837) (external scan)
• Linnæus and Jussieu, or, The rise and progress of systematic botany by Daniel C. Carr (1844) (external scan)
• A life of Linnæus by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, (1858) (external scan)
• Linnaeus as a physician by Ludvig Hektoen, (1902) (external scan)
• A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus by Basil Harrington Soulsby, 1864-1933; (1907) (external scan)
• "The Place of Linnaeus in the History of Science" by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy in Popular Science Monthly, 71 (December 1907)
• "Linnæus," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Linnaeus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• Linnaeus, in the 1912 Biographies of Scientific Men
• "Linnæus, Carolus," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Linné, Karl von," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Linnæan System," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Footnotes

Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

 

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