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Nature 448, 139-140 (12 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448139a; Published online 11 July 2007
Linnaeus and taxonomy in Japan
His Majesty The Emperor of Japan1
- This is an edited extract of a speech given by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan to the Linnaean Society of London on 29 May 2007. The full text of this speech (http://tinyurl.com/29djvx) will be published later this year by The Linnaean.
Abstract
Doctors at the Dutch Trading House on Dejima were a conduit for science into and out of Europe.
In memory of Carl Linnaeus I would like to address the question of how European scholarship has developed in Japan, touching upon the work of people such as Carl Peter Thunberg, Linnaeus's disciple who stayed in Japan for a year as a doctor for the Dutch Trading House (pictured above) and later published Flora Japonica.In the first edition of Species Plantarum in 1753, and in his later books, Linnaeus described many Japanese plants and gave them scientific names.
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