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Species Plantarum is published at Stockholm as a world plant catalogue with consistent binomials

On 1 May 1753 Laurentius Salvius in Stockholm issued Carl Linnaeus’s Species Plantarum in two volumes, listing known plants with consistent two-word names under the sexual system. Later nomenclatural codes that take 1753 as a starting point are other people’s rules, not Linnaeus’s lifetime statute. 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 1 May 1753 Laurentius Salvius in Stockholm issued Carl Linnaeus’s Species Plantarum in two volumes, listing known plants with consistent two-word names under the sexual system. Later nomenclatural codes that take 1753 as a starting point are other people’s rules, not Linnaeus’s lifetime statute. About six thousand names sat on the pages. He underestimated how many plants exist.

Context

Binomials had been tried as trivial names earlier; 1753 is the consistent botanical application. Uppsala teaching, correspondence, and apostles fed the list. Sharing does not erase the author. Buffon’s French descriptive project was the rival style.

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

Why it matters

Education-access path of higher than usual weight for a book, still not a ministry of schools. High confidence on the 1 May 1753 issue date in the received bibliography.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 1753 print is not ICN and not the 1758 animal volume. Mixed effects of Species Plantarum is published at Stockholm as a world plant catalogue with consistent binomials 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 0.44 · verified

    He authored the two volumes. Laurentius Salvius printed them; students and correspondents supplied specimens.

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.Species Plantarum (1753) — Biodiversity Heritage LibraryBiodiversity Heritage Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Linnean Society — Who was Linnaeus?The Linnean Society of London · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

BHL’s scan at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13829 (opens in a new tab) is a public copy of the 1753 volumes. Linnean Society at https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus (opens in a new tab) independently treats Species Plantarum as the botanical naming hinge.

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

Established: Species Plantarum appeared in Stockholm in 1753 with consistent binomials. Not established: that Linnaeus enacted later botanical law, or a unique species total of the living world. Contribution is recorded as He authored the two volumes. Laurentius Salvius printed them; students and correspondents supplied specimens. Later ICN starting-point rules are not this book as his act. The dated heading stays Species Plantarum is published at Stockholm as a world plant catalogue with consistent binomials on 1753-05-01, 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.

Shared responsibility is part of Species Plantarum is published at Stockholm as a world plant catalogue with consistent binomials. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1753-05-01 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.

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

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

Causal path

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

  1. ActorCarl Linnaeus
  2. contributed toFactSpecies Plantarum is published at Stockholm as a world plant catalogue with consistent binomials
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Species Plantarum is published at Stockholm as a world plant catalogue with consistent binomials. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-species-1753

https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-species-1753

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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