What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing

by Karen Magnuson Beil

Book Overview

In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus's life and career in readable, relatable prose. As a boy, Linnaeus hated school and had little interest in taking up the religious profession his family had chosen. Though he struggled through Latin and theology classes, Linnaeus was an avid student of the natural world and explored the school's gardens and woods, transfixed by the properties of different plants. At twenty-five, on a solo...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324004681
• ISBN13: 9781324004684
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Norton Young Readers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9