Who named human beings and coffee beans?
New Royal Botanic Gardens Exhibition. He pioneered the naming system which includes Homo sapiens and Coffea arabica – coffee and commenced the huge task of classifying all life on earth, he was Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus. His 300th birthday is being celebrated by scientists throughout the world. In Sydney an exhibition has opened in the Red Box Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens. The exhibition reveals some of the fruits, flowers, vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices, cereals, fibres and animals that he named. The great scientist was born in Sweden in 1707. He became a professor of medicine and botany and also studied animals and mineralogy. His work has a profound and continuing influence on biology.
