Råshult
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56°37′05″N 14°12′07″E / 56.618°N 14.202°E
Råshult is a village just north of Älmhult in Kronoberg County, Småland, Sweden. It is notable as the birthplace of the seminal biologist and "father of modern taxonomy",[1] Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Calisher, CH (2007). "Taxonomy: what's in a name? Doesn't a rose by any other name smell as sweet?". Croatian Medical Journal. 48 (2): 268–270. PMC 2080517. PMID 17436393.
- ^ Wilfrid Blunt (2001). The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus. Frances Lincoln Publishers. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7112-1841-3.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Råshult at Wikimedia Commons