Linnaeus Born
May 17, 1707
On a small parsonage in Smaland, Sweden, a boy was born who would one day organize all living things into genera and species. Carl Linnaeus's father called him his little botanist because he could not stop naming flowers. The two-word Latin phrase, Homo sapiens among them, became his lasting gift to science.
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