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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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212 years ago today on May 2, 1800, English natural philosopher and chemist William Nicholson and English surgeon Sir Anthony Carlisle discovered electrolysis. By passing an electric current through water they decomposed water into its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen. The word they chose to describe this process is a combination of two Ancient Greek words, electron meaning amber and luo (in the form lysis) meaning to free.
Image of Hoffman Electrolysis Apparatus by Ivan Akira under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.
