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Linnaeus travels Öland and Gotland for useful plants after taking the Uppsala chair

In 1741, newly appointed at Uppsala, Carl Linnaeus travelled Öland and Gotland to report plants, minerals, and husbandry for Swedish use. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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In 1741, newly appointed at Uppsala, Carl Linnaeus travelled Öland and Gotland to report plants, minerals, and husbandry for Swedish use. Alum, fodder, and medicinal plants sat in the notes. It is a resource inventory, not a racial table.

Context

The chair and the journey are the same summer’s two instruments: office and field. Local clergy and skippers shared the logistics. Sharing does not erase Linnaeus. Gotland limestone and Öland steppe plants entered later floras.

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

Why it matters

Industrial-resource path, modest weight. High confidence on 1741 island travel.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Island useful-plants are not the Uppsala appointment decree. Mixed effects of Linnaeus travels Öland and Gotland for useful plants after taking the Uppsala chair are separate paths.

Who was responsible

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

  • Carl Linnaeus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    He travelled and published island reports. The state wanted alum, plants, and livestock notes.

What changed

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

    1. FactLinnaeus travels Öland and Gotland for useful plants after taking the Uppsala chair
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 15 June 1741 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences — historyKungl. Vetenskapsakademien · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Linnean Society — Who was Linnaeus?The Linnean Society of London · 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 frame for such provincial inventories. Linnean Society at https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus (opens in a new tab) independently treats the Swedish tours as career instruments.

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

Established: Linnaeus travelled Öland and Gotland in 1741. Not established: a unique alum-output series from the report. Contribution is recorded as He travelled and published island reports. The state wanted alum, plants, and livestock notes. The dated heading stays Linnaeus travels Öland and Gotland for useful plants after taking the Uppsala chair on 1741-06-15, 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.

Shared responsibility is part of Linnaeus travels Öland and Gotland for useful plants after taking the Uppsala chair. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1741-06-15 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.

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

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

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Causal path

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  1. ActorCarl Linnaeus
  2. contributed toFactLinnaeus travels Öland and Gotland for useful plants after taking the Uppsala chair
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Linnaeus travels Öland and Gotland for useful plants after taking the Uppsala chair. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-oland-1741

https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-oland-1741

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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