Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Request Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Record 3 of 3
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Beil, Karen Magnuson, author.

Title What Linnaeus saw : a scientist's quest to name every living thing / Karen Magnuson Beil.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
[Stevens Point (Wisc.)] : Worzalla ; 2019.
©2019.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 508.092 LINNAEUS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Teen  YA B LINNEAUS CARL B    Check Shelf
Description 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Audience Age 10-14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Not one pumpkin -- Every growing thing -- Into the arctic! -- Dragon with seven heads -- Can bananas grow in holland? -- Nature's blueprint -- Last name, first name -- Most controversial plant -- Human vs. animal -- Student explorers -- The professor.
Summary The globetrotting naturalists of the eighteenth century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology.
Subject Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 -- Juvenile literature.
Naturalists -- Sweden -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.
Naturalists -- Sweden -- Biography.
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. (OCoLC)fst00043064
Naturalists. (OCoLC)fst01034543
Sweden. (OCoLC)fst01204537
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Biographies.
ISBN 9781324004684 (hardcover) $21.95 ($28.95 CAN)
1324004681 (hardcover) $21.95 ($28.95 CAN)
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español