(Hardback)

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is the man who gave living organisms two Latin names. This book gives a portrait of Linnaeus the man, charting his rise from a poor student at Lund University to Professor of Medicine at Uppsala and a founder of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

(Hardback)

This major work, first published in 1950, is still considered the classic book on the subject. It provides a comprehensive survey of plant portrayals across over three thousand years.