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2013-01-10 , 10:28
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Originally Posted by Tofe View Post
You thought wrong; Linnea is a reference to the flower, not Linné - not directly at least.
But the flower presumably got its name because it was Linnĉus' favourite.

Originally Posted by Tofe View Post
And even if his classification of races looks a bit ill today (but not so ill in his time!), he is mostly remembered because he put in place the bases of today's taxonomy.
I didn't refer to the viewpoint of today but to the reactions his classification caused among his contemporaries.
This is why I explicitly linked to the critics section in the german wikipedia article where some of their reactions are mentioned. Unfortunately the english article lacks such a section, otherwise I would have linked to that one.