Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
1989
Abstract
A little over two hundred and fifty years ago Linnaeus (= Linne) began to maneuver his concepts of animal arrangement into Aristotle’s logic of classes. Twenty-three years elapsed between the publication of his first and tenth editions of Systema naturae. The tenth edition (1758) is the acknowledged starting point of zoological nomenclature. Often forgotten but highly significant is the fact that he spent those intervening twenty years orchestrating the then known animals into the world of philosophy.
Comments
Published in Revue de Nématologie (1989) 12(1): 3-6. Copyright 1989, Institut de recherche pour le développement. Used by permission.