Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Who Was He? 1
5. Part I A Great Man Can Come from a Small House 1707–1741
6. Introduction 13
7. Chapter one. The Guardian Tree 17
8. Chapter two. Studies in Växjö and Lund 30
9. Chapter three. The Academy in Uppsala 45
10. Chapter four. In a Mythical Landscape: Lapland 61
11. Chapter five. Diaeta Naturalis 82
12. Chapter six. In the Mountains and under the Ground 91
13. Chapter seven. In the Land of Tulips 103
14. Chapter eight. Nature’s Order 1 119
15. Chapter nine. A Stockholm Interlude 130
16. Part II At the Height of the Ages of Man 1741–1758
17. Introduction 143
18. Chapter ten. Uppsala and Enlightenment 147
19. Chapter eleven. Three Programmatic Speeches 153
20. Chapter twelve. Provincial Travels on Behalf of Parliament 158
21. Chapter thirteen. A Language in Which Everything Matters 176
22. Chapter fourteen. Flora et Fauna Svecica 181
23. Chapter fifteen. Family Life 1 scenes from a marriage 186
24. Chapter sixteen. In the Garden, at Herbations, among the Collections 194
25. Chapter seventeen. Ex Cathedra 207
26. Chapter eighteen. What Is More Precious than Life, More Pleasing than Health? 211
27. Chapter nineteen. Academic Amusements 223
28. Chapter twenty. Appetite for Work, Weariness, Communication 228
29. Chapter twenty-one. When Linnaeus Wrote, Salvius Printed, and Tessin Bought the Books 238
30. Chapter twenty-two. Linnaeus, “the Sexualist” 247
31. Chapter twenty-three. Curiosity-Driven Research 253
32. Chapter twenty-four. Nature and Culture 257
33. Chapter twenty-five. Entrepreneur and Economist 264
34. Chapter twenty-six. To Describe the World 271
35. Chapter twenty-seven. Nature’s Order 2 279
36. Chapter twenty-eight. Homo sapiens 294
37. Part III The Old Linnaeus 1758–1778
38. Introduction 301
39. Chapter twenty-nine. Honors 305
40. Chapter thirty. Among Students and among Senior Academics 309
41. Chapter thirty-one. Family Life 2: Hammarby 317
42. Chapter thirty-two. Friends and Enemies 327
43. Chapter thirty-three. Problems 337
44. Chapter thirty-four. A New Synthesis? 346
45. Chapter thirty-five. A Philosopher of Science or a Scientist? 359
46. Chapter thirty-six. The Back of God and God’s Footsteps 365
47. Chapter thirty-seven. Nemesis Divina 373
48. Chapter thirty-eight. Solomon on Growing Old 380
49. Epilogue I Family Life 3: mother and child 394
50. Epilogue II Linneanism 402
51. Abbreviations 411
52. Notes 413
53. Sources and literature 437
54. Index 459