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Hortus Cliffortianus describes George Clifford’s Hartekamp garden

In 1737 Hortus Cliffortianus appeared, Carl Linnaeus’s catalogue of George Clifford’s garden at Hartekamp, where he had lived as physician-botanist to the Anglo-Dutch financier. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1737 Hortus Cliffortianus appeared, Carl Linnaeus’s catalogue of George Clifford’s garden at Hartekamp, where he had lived as physician-botanist to the Anglo-Dutch financier. Plates and descriptions taught a European public what a rich man’s stove-plants looked like.

Context

Clifford’s garden concentrated Asian, African, and American plants through Dutch trade. Linnaeus ate, slept, and classified there. Sharing patronage does not erase his title page. Ehret’s sexual-system plate is neighbouring 1736 work, stored separately as an artificial key.

Why it matters

Education path via a printed garden. Modest-to-mid weight. High confidence on 1737.

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

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Carl Linnaeus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He catalogued the garden. Clifford paid living and print; artists drew plates.

What changed

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

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Carolus LinnaeusEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Linnean Society — Who was Linnaeus?The Linnean Society of London · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Linnean Society at https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus (opens in a new tab) places the Clifford years and Hortus Cliffortianus in the Dutch episode. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus (opens in a new tab) independently names Clifford and the Hartekamp catalogue.

(https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus (opens in a new tab); The Linnean Society of London).

Established: Hortus Cliffortianus was issued in 1737 from Clifford’s garden. Not established: that Linnaeus owned the plants, or that every later greenhouse is this book. Contribution is recorded as He catalogued the garden. Clifford paid living and print; artists drew plates. The impact note is A luxurious garden catalogue made a private Dutch collection a public botanical instrument, a modest knowledge path. The dated heading stays Hortus Cliffortianus describes George Clifford’s Hartekamp garden on 1737-01-01, 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. Hartekamp is not Species Plantarum and not a later UNESCO garden. Mixed effects of Hortus Cliffortianus describes George Clifford’s Hartekamp garden are separate paths.

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

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

Shared responsibility is part of Hortus Cliffortianus describes George Clifford’s Hartekamp garden. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1737-01-01 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

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCarl Linnaeus
  2. contributed toFactHortus Cliffortianus describes George Clifford’s Hartekamp garden
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Hortus Cliffortianus describes George Clifford’s Hartekamp garden. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-hortus-cliffort-1737

https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-hortus-cliffort-1737

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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