Nature’s Order 2

In the 1740s, Linnaeus completed his provincial journeys; his great systematic works, which laid the foundation of his fame, were creations of the 1750s: Species Plantarum (1753) and the tenth edition of Systema Naturae (1758–1759). What had or had not happened during the thirty years that steadily saw new editions of Systema Naturae? Systema is the Arc in which all Creation will be penned in an orderly manner for the greater good of mankind. The first edition ran to twelve pages (Leyden, 1735); the fourth edition had grown to 108 pages (Paris, 1744), and the sixth to twice as