Events for January 18, 2009

January 18, 2009

Karen Reeds, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

“Linnaeus:  The Naturalist as Book Collector”

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Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  West Classroom, Firestone Library, Princeton University
Information:  Ronald Smeltzer, 609.924.4789 or rksmeltzer@verizon.net

The great 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus collected and classified books almost as passionately as he did natural history specimens.  This presentation will describe and discuss Linnaeus’s library, today preserved at the Linnean Society of London.  Karen Reeds, Fellow of the Linnean Society, is a historian of science and medicine who has written extensively about natural history books and illustration from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.  She recently curated two exhibitions about Linnaeus and his work.