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  1. Morton, A. G. (1981), History of Botanical Science. Academic Press.

  2. Vaillant died in Holland at the age of fifty- three, leaving the notes and plates for Botanicon
    Parisiense, on which he had worked for thirty- six years, to his friend Herman Boerhaave.
    Boerhaave arranged for its publication in 1727.

  3. Erikson, Linnaeus the botanist, pp. 63– 109.

  4. Idem., p. 65

  5. Not to be confused with his nephew Anders Celsius, who invented the Celsius scale.

  6. A tradition sadly discontinued in modern times!

  7. Broberg, G.  (1990), Brown- eyed, Nimble, Hasty, Did Everything Promptly. Uppsala
    University Press.

  8. Algae are no longer grouped with the land plants, and Fungi have been placed in a separate
    Kingdom.

  9. The “Act for the Better Preventing Clandestine Marriage,” also known as “The Marriage
    Act of 1753,” was the first law in England and Wales to require a public proclamation before a
    wedding could take place.

  10. “Clinia” from the Greek word for “bed.”

  11. Shteir, A.  B. (1996), Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science:  Flora’s Daughters and
    Botany in England, 1760– 1860. Johns Hopkins University Press; ##Schiebinger, L.  (1993), The
    private lives of plants, in Schiebinger, Nature’s Body; George, S. (2007), Botany, Sexuality, and
    Women’s Writing (1760– 1830). Manchester University Press.

  12. Schiebinger, Nature’s Body, p. 28.

  13. Shteir, Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science, pp. 17– 18.

  14. Cook, A.  (2012), Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Botany:  The Salutary Science. Voltaire
    Foundation, Oxford.

  15. Indeed, the longer Rousseau studied botany, the more attracted he became to the natural
    systems of classifications being developed by Bernard and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu and other
    French botanists. See Cook, Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Botany.

  16. Shteir, Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science.

  17. Quoted by Mayr, E. (1982), The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and
    Inheritance. Belknap Press, p. 256.

  18. For a historical perspective on the philosophical definitions of “accidents” in natu-
    ral history, from Aristotle to Sebastian de Monteux and Leonhart Fuchs, see the discus-
    sion in Sachiko Kusukawa’s Picturing the Book of Nature:  Image, Text, and Argument in
    Sixteenth- Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany (2012), University of Chicago Press,
    pp. 103— 109.

  19. Leapman, The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild.

  20. Gustafsson, Å. (1979). Linnaeus’ Peloria: The history of a monster. Theoretical and Applied
    Genetics 54:241– 248.

  21. Caroli Linnaei:  Amoenitates Academicae III. Peloria 1749 (1744) 55– 73, translation in
    Gustafsson, Linnaeus’ Peloria.

  22. Erikson, Linnaeus the botanist.

  23. Ibid. As we shall see in Chapter 16, Goethe was to use elements of Linnaeus’s medulla–
    cortex theory as the basis for an argument against the sexual theory of plants.

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