This thesis uses the letters of Carl Linnaeus to investigate the social and academic practices ofgeologists in the 18th century. Geology in the 18th century is understudied, and this study usessources written by Linnaeus, who was not famous but nevertheless active in geology, to study thedaily practices of geologists. Collective biography is used t...
In the late 1750s, the Swedish botanist Engelbert Jörlin (1733–1810), one of Carl Linnaeus’ students wrote his dissertation Plantae tinctoriae on more than one hundred dye plants. The article presents a systematic study on these dyeing materials and reflects the knowledge in the mid-18th century. His dissertation focused on domestic plants that cou...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the images of Sápmi and the Saami people that existed among natural historians during the eighteenth century through the lens of Carl Linnaeus' Lapland journey 1732. It examines how these images were tied to the societal discourses of the time and if and how these images were used during the Swedish colonis...
This is a study of the Swedish debate on statues and monuments to the world-famous Swedish natural scientist Carl Linnaeus that took place during the Black Lives Matter movement breakthrough in the summer of 2020. The purpose is to examine how understandings of race, racism, identity,and history were articulated in the debate. The empirical materia...
Published in Acta medico-historica adriatica : AMHA
This study presents the first full translation from Latin to English of the Linnaean dissertation Morbi Artificum or Occupational diseases, submitted by Nicholas Skragge in 1765. It consists of an essay that places the dissertation in historical and scientific context and of the translation. Skragge's thesis has not only significance in the history...
The contain data generated by the recogito software (https://recogito.pelagios.org/) in processing the text of Peter Graves' translation. of Linnaeus's Laplandfic Journey (Edinburgh Universioty Press, 1995). Recogito allows to tag place names with UUIDs and correlate these with geolocation data (taken from geonames). Locations can then be displayed...
This thesis project explores landscape and the transformations that occur to it over time. Using architectural interventions the project sets out to find a way of narrating and emphasising the transformation processes that take place in the landscape, striving to challenge and deepen the understanding of both man’s and nature’s impact on the enviro...
Anglo-Swedish scholarly correspondence from the mid-eighteenth century contains repeated mentions of two merchants, Abraham Spalding and Gustavus Brander. The letters describe how these men facilitated the exchange of knowledge over the Baltic Sea and the North Sea by shipping letters, books and other scientific objects, as well as by enabling long...
The subject of this thesis is identity and materiality in the household of Carl Linnaeus. Focus in on the period between the mid 1730s and early 1780s. The household eventually came to consist of five children and a number of servants. By mapping the numbers of servants, and piecing together scattered information about the consumption of the Linnae...
