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Fauna Svecica inventories Swedish animals for a domestic scientific public

In 1746 Carl Linnaeus published Fauna Svecica, listing Swedish animals as a companion to the plant inventory. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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In 1746 Carl Linnaeus published Fauna Svecica, listing Swedish animals as a companion to the plant inventory. Fish, birds, insects, and mammals sit in a useful-science frame. Peter Artedi’s method for fishes is a debt stored also on a worsening control row for the 1738 edition.

Context

National inventories were Hats-era science. Students shot and netted. Sharing field labour does not erase the author. A fauna can serve hunting, fishing, and classification together.

Vetenskapsakademien at https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/ (opens in a new tab).

Why it matters

Industrial-and-teaching inventory, modest weight. High confidence on 1746.

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Who was responsible

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  • Carl Linnaeus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    He authored the Swedish animal inventory. Correspondents sent specimens; Artedi’s fish method is a debt.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactFauna Svecica inventories Swedish animals for a domestic scientific public
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1746 · verified

    A national fauna aimed at useful and known animals is an industrial-and-teaching inventory, modest weight.

Evidence

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Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences — historyKungl. Vetenskapsakademien · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Carolus LinnaeusEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

KVA at https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/ (opens in a new tab) is the official useful-science academy for these inventories. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus (opens in a new tab) independently lists the Swedish fauna among Linnaeus’s national works.

Vetenskapsakademien).

Established: Fauna Svecica appeared in 1746. Not established: a unique fishery-yield series from the book. Contribution is recorded as He authored the Swedish animal inventory. Correspondents sent specimens; Artedi’s fish method is a debt. The impact note is A national fauna aimed at useful and known animals is an industrial-and-teaching inventory, modest weight. The dated heading stays Fauna Svecica inventories Swedish animals for a domestic scientific public on 1746-01-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 1746 Swedish animals are not the 1758 world Systema. Mixed effects of Fauna Svecica inventories Swedish animals for a domestic scientific public are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Fauna Svecica inventories Swedish animals for a domestic scientific public. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1746-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

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  1. ActorCarl Linnaeus
  2. contributed toFactFauna Svecica inventories Swedish animals for a domestic scientific public
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Fauna Svecica inventories Swedish animals for a domestic scientific public. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-fauna-svecica-1746

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