''Fundamenta Botanica'' (“Foundations of botany”) (Amsterdam, Salomon Schouten, ed. 1, 1736) was one of the major works of the Swedish

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and

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Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, ...

(1707–1778) and issued both as a separate work and part of the ''

Bibliotheca Botanica ''Bibliotheca Botanica'' ("Bibliography of botany", Amsterdam, 1736, Salomen Schouten; 2nd edn., 1751) is a botany book by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). The book was written and published in Amsterdam when Linnaeus was twenty- ...

''. This book states, for the first time, Linnaeus's ideas for the reformation of botanical

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. The first edition is dated 1736 but it was released on 14 September 1735 (Linnaeus wrote in his personal copy “Typus absolutus 1735, Sept. 3”). The full title was ''Fundamenta Botanica, quae Majorum Operum Prodromi instar Theoriam Scientiae Botanices by breves Aphorismos tradunt''. The first edition was dedicated to Olof Rudbeck,

Lorenz Heister Lorenz Heister (Latin: ''Laurentius Heister'') (19 September 1683 – 18 April 1758) was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main. Biography From 1702 to 1706 Heister studied at the Universities of Giessen and Wetz ...

Adriaan van Royen Adriaan van Royen (11 November 1704 in Leiden – 28 February 1779 in Leiden) was a Dutch botanist. He was a professor at Leiden University and is associated with Carl Linnaeus. He is best known for his work on flora of Southeast Asia. Adr ...

, Johann Jacob Dillen,

Antoine de Jussieu Antoine de Jussieu (6 July 168622 April 1758) was a French naturalist, botanist, and physician. Jussieu was born in Lyon, the son of Christophe de Jussieu (or Dejussieu), an apothecary of some repute, who published a ''Nouveau traité de la ...

, Giulio Pontedera,

Johann Amman Johann Amman, Johannes Amman or Иоганн Амман (22 December 1707 in Schaffhausen – 14 December 1741 in St Petersburg) was a Swiss-Russian botanist, a member of the Royal Society and professor of botany at the Russian Academy of Sci ...

Johannes Burman Johannes Burman (26 April 1707 in Amsterdam – 20 February 1780), was a Dutch botanist and physician. Burman specialized in plants from Ceylon, Amboina and Cape Colony. The name ''Pelargonium'' was introduced by Johannes Burman. Johannes ...

Pierre Magnol Pierre Magnol (8 June 1638 – 21 May 1715) was a French botanist. He was born in the city of Montpellier, where he lived and worked for most of his life. He became Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden of Montpellier and hel ...

and

Giuseppe Monti Giuseppe Monti (27 November 1682 – 29 February 1760) was an Italian chemist and botanist. He was a professor of botany and from 1722 to 1760 director of the Bologna Botanical Garden. His son Gaetano Lorenzo Monti (1712–1797) was also a botanis ...

. A second edition was published in Stockholm in 1740 and a third in Amsterdam in 1741. The publication of this work as well as Genera Plantarum and

Systema Naturae ' (originally in Latin written ' with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy. Although the system, now known as binomial ...

was encouraged by

Herman Boerhaave Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738Underwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." ''The British Medical Journal'' 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20395297.) was a Dutch botanist, ...

who had been Linnaeus's teacher. The ''Fundamenta'' in combination with the ''

Critica Botanica ''Critica Botanica'' ("Critique of botany", Leiden, July 1737) was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). The book was published in Germany when Linnaeus was 29 with a discursus by the botan ...

'' lays Linnaeus's foundations for his system of

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and botanical terminology that were later reviewed and expanded in the ''

Philosophia Botanica ''Philosophia Botanica'' ("Botanical Philosophy", ed. 1, Stockholm & Amsterdam, 1751.) was published by the Swedish naturalist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) who greatly influenced the development of botanical taxonomy and systematics ...

'' (1751). He does this by means of 365 Aphorisms (principles) arranged into 12 chapters:

''VIRIS NOBILISSIMIS'' (Dedication to men to honor)
''BOTANICIS CELEBERRIMIS'' (Dedication to famous botanists)
''PRAEFATIO'' (Preface)
''FUNDAMENTA BOTANICA'' (Botanical fundamentals or fundamental botanical aphorisms)
::I. ''BIBLIOTHECA'' (library), Aphorismen : articles 1-52 (page 1-5) ::II. ''SYSTEMATA'' (systematics) : articles 53–77 (pages 5-7) ::III. ''PLANTAE'' (plants) : articles 78–85 (pages 7-9) ::IV. ''FRUCTIFICATIO'' (fruit carrier) : articles 86–131 (pages 10-15) ::V. ''SEXUS'' (sex) : articles 132–150 (pages 15-17) ::VI. ''CHARACTERES'' (characterisation) : articles 151–209 (pages 18-22) ::VII. ''NOMINA'' (nouns or names) : articles 210–255 (pages 23-26) ::VIII. ''DIFFERENTIAE'' (distinction) : articles 256–305 (pages 26-29) ::IX. ''VARIATIONES'' (Varieties) : articles 306–317 (pages 30-31) ::X. ''SYNONYMA'' (synonyms) : articles 318–324 (pages 31-31) ::XI. ''ADUMBRATIONES'' (description) : articles 325–335 (pages 31-32) ::XII. ''VIRES'' (forces) : articles 336–365 (pages 33-35) ''CONCLUSIONES EX DICTIS'' (Conclusion from the foregoing) I-XII (page 36)

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Full bibliographic details including exact dates of publication, pagination, editions, facsimiles, brief outline of contents, location of copies, secondary sources, translations, reprints, manuscripts, travelogues, and commentaries are given in Stafleu and Cowan's ''Taxonomic Literature''.Stafleu & Cowan, p. 75.

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* Stafleu, Frans A. & Cowan, Richard S. 1981. "Taxonomic Literature. A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications with dates, Commentaries and Types. Vol III: Lh–O." ''Regnum Vegetabile'' 105. {{Authority control 1736 books Botanical nomenclature Florae (publication) Botany books Carl Linnaeus 1736 in science Biology and natural history in the Dutch Republic 18th-century Latin books

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