Resisting System: Britain, Buffon, And The Avoidance of Linnaeus
It is a commonplace of science (although less of the history of science) that Linnaeus definitively solved the vexing problems of taxonomy and nomenclature in the 18th century, thus freeing subsequent researchers to focus on more challenging problems.In fact the reception of the Linnaean system was slow and incomplete at the time, and much of his w