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Linnaeus, The Name Giver
Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus was an early information architect. He believed that every kind of plant and animal on...
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Larva is actually a fairly poetic word in English that meant “mask” in Latin.
It comes from Carl Linnaeus, who first applied it to caterpillars,...
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Linnaeus’ flower clock was a garden plan hypothesized by Carolus Linnaeus that would take advantage of several plants that open or close their...
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If this isn’t a treehouse?
In the garden of the place where famous botanist, physician, and zoologist, Carl Linnaeus lived.
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Today is the birthday of physicist Louis Essen, inventor of the cesium atomic clock. Cesium (also spelled caesium) was discovered using the new method of flame spectroscopy in 1860 by two German scientists, Robert Bunsen (yes, of Bunsen burner fame) and Gustav Kirchhoff. They decided to name the new element after its unusual and unique spectrographic signature, specifically the preponderance of the color sky blue, which you can see in the spectrograph above. The word came from the Latin word caesius meaning blue-gray, often referring to the color of eyes.
Image of pollucite (a common mineral rich in cesium) courtesy Rob Lavinsky. Image of ampule of liquid cesium (although a metal, cesium is liquid at room temperature) by argentoratum. To see the spectrograph of any element, check out the cool site by University of Oregon.
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