Your works are wonderful, O Lord! In the multitude of Thy virtues you measure those who despise you. - Carl Linnaeus

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Your works are wonderful, O Lord! In the multitude of Thy virtues you measure those who despise you.

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About Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May, 1707– 10 January, 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.

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Native Name: Carolus Linnaeus
Alternative Names: Carl Nilsson Linnæus • Carl von Linné • Carolus a Linné • Carolus Linnæus • Linnaeus • Linn. • Linnæus • Carl Linnæus • Linné • Carl von Linne • Carolus a Linne • Linne • Caroli Linnæi • L. • Carl von Linnaeus • Carolo Linnaeo • Carolo Linnæo • Karl von Linné • Carl Nilsson Linnaeus
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Over the door of his room he caused this sentence to be inscribed: "lnnocuex vivito--- Numen Adest!" He always entertained veneration and admiration for his Creator, and endeavoured to trace his science to its Author. "Tu decus omne tuis, postquam te fata tulere." (Virgilio)
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Variant translation: "I saw the infinite, all-knowing and all-powerful God from behind as he went away, and I grew dizzy. I followed his footsteps over nature's fields and saw everywhere an eternal wisdom and power, an inscrutable perfection." (As quoted in History of Science, by Peter Whitfield (2003), Scholastic Library Pub, p. 23.)
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