Critica Botanica

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Critica Botanica is a 1737 botanical treatise by Carl Linnaeus in which he sets out principles and rules for the scientific naming and classification of plants.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
botanical treatise
non-fiction work
aimsTo standardize plant names
author Carl Linnaeus
bibliographicCategory 18th-century botany book
countryOfOrigin Sweden
describes principles of scientific naming of plants
rules for botanical nomenclature
rules for classification of plants
fieldOfWork botany
followedBy Philosophia Botanica
genre scientific literature
hasAuthor Carl Linnaeus
hasAuthorCitizenship Swedish
hasAuthorOccupation botanist
physician
hasNotableContribution formalization of rules for plant names
foundation for later botanical codes of nomenclature
hasOriginalLanguage Latin
hasPublicationDate 1737
historicalPeriod Age of Enlightenment
influenced Linnaean taxonomy
modern botanical nomenclature
influencedBy earlier botanical naming practices
language Latin
mainSubject botanical nomenclature
plant classification
partOf Linnaeus’s early taxonomic works
placeOfPublication Leiden NERFINISHED
publicationCentury 18th century
publicationYear 1737
publisherLocation Dutch Republic
relatedWork Genera Plantarum
Systema Naturae
setsOut criteria for evaluating botanical names
rules for forming plant names
title Critica Botanica
topic scientific naming conventions
taxonomic principles
workChronologyPosition early work of Carl Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus ("Philosophia Botanica")
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Critica Botanica
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