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

Date: 1753

## The fact

On 1 May 1753 Laurentius Salvius in Stockholm issued [Carl Linnaeus](/people/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. Do not treat a 1905 Vienna congress or later ICN as this May 1753 printing.

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

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Species Plantarum (1753) — Biodiversity Heritage Library (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13829; Biodiversity Heritage Library). (https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus; The Linnean Society of London).

## Significance

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.

## What is established and what is not

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. The impact note is Consistent binomial plant names in a single printed flora are a knowledge-access path. 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. 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.

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. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13829
- https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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