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Linnaeus begins the Lapland journey funded by the Uppsala Scientific Society

On 12 May 1732 Carl Linnaeus left Uppsala on a journey through Lapland financed by the Royal Scientific Society of Uppsala, keeping the notes later known as Iter Lapponicum. 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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On 12 May 1732 Carl Linnaeus left Uppsala on a journey through Lapland financed by the Royal Scientific Society of Uppsala, keeping the notes later known as Iter Lapponicum. He recorded plants, rocks, and Sámi material culture for a Swedish learned public.

Context

Swedish natural history still ran on provincial societies and clerical patrons such as Olof Celsius. The journey was also a useful-plants brief for a mercantilist state, which is not the same as a later colonial botanical garden. Guides, horses, and Sámi households made the itinerary possible. Sharing labour does not erase the named traveller.

Shared responsibility is part of Linnaeus begins the Lapland journey funded by the Uppsala Scientific Society. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1732-05-12 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.

Why it matters

Education path: a public Arctic field notebook. Modest weight. High confidence on the 1732 departure. Sámi extraction sits on another row.

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 travelled and wrote Iter Lapponicum. The Uppsala society paid; Sámi guides and unnamed boatmen shared the road.

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

The Linnean Society biography at https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus (opens in a new tab) locates the 1732 Lapland journey in the early career. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus (opens in a new tab) independently dates the expedition and its society funding. The two URLs differ.

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

Established: Linnaeus travelled Lapland in 1732 under Uppsala society support. Not established: a unique plant-count that later ICBN rules treat as this diary. Contribution is recorded as He travelled and wrote Iter Lapponicum. The Uppsala society paid; Sámi guides and unnamed boatmen shared the road. The impact note is A funded field journey made Arctic flora and livelihood a printed Swedish scientific object, a modest education path distinct from later extraction costs. The dated heading stays Linnaeus begins the Lapland journey funded by the Uppsala Scientific Society on 1732-05-12, 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.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The 1732 road is not Flora Lapponica’s print date and not a racial table. Mixed effects of Linnaeus begins the Lapland journey funded by the Uppsala Scientific Society are separate paths.

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

Causal path

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

  1. ActorCarl Linnaeus
  2. contributed toFactLinnaeus begins the Lapland journey funded by the Uppsala Scientific Society
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Linnaeus begins the Lapland journey funded by the Uppsala Scientific Society. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-lapland-1732

https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-lapland-1732

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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