Entering a New World: The Northern Travels of Carl Linnaeus in 1732
(The following is a post by Taru Spiegel, Reference Specialist, European Division.) In May of 1732, the young and determined Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus (1707-78) set off from the old university town of Uppsala on a research expedition to Sápmi, then known as Lapland. This is an area comprising northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, as […]