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Systema Naturae

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Title page of the 1758 edition of Linnaeus's Systema Naturæ.[1]

Systema Naturae (sometimes written Systema Naturæ) is the main work of Carl Linnaeus, where he listed and classified the known species of plants, animals, and minerals. The first edition was made of only seven folios.

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  1. Linnaeus, Carolus (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin) (10th ed.). Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius.