# Fauna Svecica inventories Swedish animals for a domestic scientific public

Date: 1746

## The fact

In 1746 [Carl Linnaeus](/people/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. Do not treat later Swedish red lists as this 1746 book.

Vetenskapsakademien at https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences — history (https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/; Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien).

## Significance

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

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

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. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. 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. The attached driver is [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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.

## People

- Carl Linnaeus: https://factrail.ai/people/carl-linnaeus

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.kva.se/en/the-academy/history/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-fauna-svecica-1746