This is the best channel on all of TH-cam. I'm a doctor and I'm covid-19 suspect and hence in isolation in the hospital where I work in Bangalore, I was genuinely waiting for the new video from last 2 days. Thank you Simon and the team.
Mansvi Sharma Simon is the best. I have thanked him and his team for helping keep us on the rails during these challenging times. TH-cam has truly become SimonTube.
I love how the students respected Linné. It was very rough at times, with students wrecking havoc in town streets and various local establishment not being part of the University. When Linné happened to have his wagon into the mid of a fierce street brawl, the students let him be completely untouched, letting him pass straight through the brawl. He was not only admired, but liked. When battling out with academics attacking him and his work, students cheered for him and booed on the attacker. It seems to me he really liked to share his knowledge to all. He seemed to enjoy exchanging knowledge, share, learn and teach.
As a retired biology teacher, I appreciate the depth of information you have provided above Linnaeus. His background and help by others in the area of taxonomy is nearly non existent in textbooks.
Carl von Linné might have been too big for his breeches, but as a Swede, I can't deny feeling a little bit proud of his accomplishments and prevailing legacy in taxonomy.
I can not thank you enough, this has helped me help my daughter with her homework! A fantastic presentation style with great attention to detail. I've learnt more history in a few days watching these and linked channels than I did with years of history in school. Thanks again.
Eum, there's still a Lappland here in sweden, it's our biggest province in the whole country and it has no competition for that title, it's literally almost a quarter of our whole country.. I mean it has a population density of 0.83/km2 but... that's irrelevant
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Early years 3:45 - Chapter 2 - A trip to lapland 8:05 - Chapter 3 - The hydra & the bannana 12:00 - Mid roll ads 13:25 - Chapter 4 - The systema naturae 18:25 - Chapter 5 - Back to sweden
Great video! I have a PhD in Plant Taxonomy so I knew some of the things you talked about, particularly the parts related to his scientific work. But I didn't know a lot about the details of his life. So I really appreciate that. I have a few little nitpicks. Nothing that would seriously hurt the video, but maybe you'd find informative. You are correct that a banana produces a berry, but you weren't wrong to say a banana fruit. A berry is a kind of fruit, much in the way a sedan is a type of car not something different from a car. Second, zoologists are allowed to use the same name for a genus in species (i.e. Bison Bison) but botanists are not (you can't name a rose Rosa Rosa for example). In fact some early plant names have been changed because of this. Finally, a little mention of Species Plantarum would have been nice. It marks the official start date for plant names. Nothing he nor anyone else named in a book prior to the Species Plantarum publication date of May 1, 1753 counts as an official scientific name (unless it got reused there or after). The start date for animals is January 1, 1758 in Systema Naturae's 10th edition, making Species Plantarum the very first valid use of the binomial system (for taxonomic purposes) for any biological organism.
I see Carl Linneaus like Darwin. Both were revolutionary especially for their times. Both were very bright and paved the way to modern understanding Both were very wrong in many of their theories and modern science improved on their scientific theories and principles. For instance we now use cladistics instead of the linnean system due to the fact linneaus like everyone else had no idea dna existed. Cladistics is absed on dna and species based ancestry. And we know now that Darwin was often correct in how things worked while getting the hypothesis wrong. For instance believing whales came from bears. He was right whales were related to land species but he was totally wrong about what the ancestor was. Darwin wasn't perfect, linneaus wasn't perfect but without them we wouldn't know as much as we know about biology and ancestry today.
Cladistics isn't entirely based on DNA. For instance we know that whales are necessarily derived from tetrapods, birds are reptiles, and all tetrapods are technically lobe-finned fish based on anatomy. However DNA can be used to corroborate anatomy and is indeed much more straightforward in most cases. Don't mistake my pedantics for criticism. I mostly interact with facebook creationists to get screencaps of them saying ridiculous things so it's refreshing to encounter someone not divorced from reality.
@@patldennis thats kinda what I was trying to say i meant DNA was moreless used to get down to the nitty gritty on organization. The main idea is that you cant grow out of what your ancestors were. Like if cats evolved in a way that made them look like fish they wouldn't be a new modern fish they would be a sub category of some fishy ass kitties. Even though mammals came from mamal like reptiles and so on further back. (That wouldnt happen but if it did they can't grow out of their ancestry. ) Thanks man for helping me with that btw. I love biology. I'm rusty when it comes to clades but i can underunderstand it way better than taxonomy because it fits so much better together.
@@SheevPalpatine66420 the concept you are describing is Ernst Mayer's Law of Monophyly. Aron Ra on youtube has a ton of stuff on this topic. Nice chat!
I started watching this today, April 2nd, when I saw that this post had been uploaded "1 day ago" I wasn't familiar with the name so I excitedly settled in for what was sure to be another excellently crafted April Fools episodes. Now I just know a lot about Carl Linnaeus. Happy for the knowledge, sad for tradition.
Thank you for sharing so many great history videos with the community, The kids and I love being able to soak up all the history during this difficult time! Keep up the great work!!!
I got interested in taxonomy when I was reading about pot as a young teen. The botanical books called it cannabis Sative (of L). I wanted to know what the hell 'of L' was. This was before the Intenet, so it was a book hunt. And then I fell down the rabbit hole of book collecting.
I really liked this episode! I don't think biographies of viscous, blood thirsty tyrants and criminals are the only lives you can enjoy learning about.
Wonderful video! I feel connected to Linneaus because I was an exchange student in Småland many years ago, and have visited Lund University many times. Thanks for acknowledging such a great man!
In the binomial system, the generic name only goes with a capital letter, the specific name goes in small letter. For example :Homo sapiens is correct, Homo Sapiens is incorrect.
Such an interesting video as always. I enjoy the simple format that doesn't require me to watch the video as such - I can just listen and potter about my humble abode. Side note - could you do a video on another eminent Swedish scientist - Celsius?
My favorite named genus Portlandia. They are named after Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. She was a bluestocking, a natural history collector and the richest woman in Britain. She also was something of a night owl. Portlandia grandiflora L. blooms after sunset. Favorite full name: Theobroma Cacao: Food-of-the-Gods Chocolate. It is clear that Linnaeus was chocophilic.
Man, I hope they're giving you some serious extra coin for putting those adverts in the middle of the video, because it absolutely slaughters the flow of your videos.
@@d4mdcykey I didn't mean a youtube ad. I meant Simon's promotion of Brilliant in the middle of the video. Man, when you try to make fun of someone and just end up making yourself look silly. Rough moment, buddy.
Carl Linneasus also introduced what we know today as race. And not only that, he also classified Homo sapiens into 4 groups and gave all for groups characteristics based off those groups so not to deny his greatness in taxonomy but he also played a major role in how we view people today
Fun facts: Anders Celcius who perfected the Centigrade Temperature scale (Which later was named Celcius in his honor) is from Uppsala, and was also a professor at Uppsala University. It was also Celcius who proposed the name "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences" for Linnaeus. Saturn, as a part of the largest permanent scale model of the Solar System, is just outside Anders Celcius old observatory in the city centre of Uppsala.
It is insane that only about 2 minutes from the end we're reminded that this guy is only in his mid 30's when he settled into a groove and just continued the work that he'd started years before
I've been greatly enjoying binge watching this and your other channel, Geographics. Thank you for both channels. The work y'all do is very interesting, well researched, these scripts are well written, and I enjoy your presentation style and the humor interjected into the scripts. I personally would like a few more images of what you're talking about, á la documentary style, and for the sponsor spiel to be at the front of the video. I'm significantly more likely to sit through a sponsorship if it's at the beginning before I've dived into the video. When you do it in the middle, even though your segue ways are awesome, I just want to continue learning about what you're presenting. Leading me to skip your sponsorships. I cannot be the only one who feels this way. Just a suggestion that might help with people viewing, and possibly engaging, with your sponsors.
A video on "the father of Taxonomy" many sound dull but this one's anything but, there's so much interesting stuff in here. Love the digression on bananas!
Taxation is probably too old to classify on who came up with it, as it is technically a Medieval method that has lasted to today, albeit the rules of taxations have changed immensely.
this episode reminds me of nerly everything i ever here in star trek, exactly star trek tng!! i know ur a trekkie so made this video even better!! ty, to u and ur team!! stay safe!!
Dear Biographics, I've decided that I have to boycott Biographics until you do one on Alfred North Whitehead. He's that important. I doubt my one man boycott will work, but I have to do it on principle, so hurry up and do one on ANW so I can watch Biographics again! I love this channel!
should do one on michael jackson. I'd say its too controversial but there has been more controversial people on this channel and i'd like to see a mostly comprohensive story of his life and fall.
Check out Brilliant: brilliant.org/biographics
Please please... Do the biography of Joseph Fouché ... please.... please....
Your "Newest Channel" link in the desc goes to studio, which I think is the wrong URL prefix?
Please talk about Jules Brunet!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!Thank you!!!!!
This is the best channel on all of TH-cam.
I'm a doctor and I'm covid-19 suspect and hence in isolation in the hospital where I work in Bangalore, I was genuinely waiting for the new video from last 2 days.
Thank you Simon and the team.
Man....you gotta get better and get the hell out of there! Thanks for what you're doing! 😎👍
Mansvi Sharma Simon is the best. I have thanked him and his team for helping keep us on the rails during these challenging times.
TH-cam has truly become SimonTube.
Out of quarantine, my tests came negative so I have joined work again.
Thanks guys
I wholeheartedly agree Mansvi. I look forward to these to. Take care.
I hope you have recovered and doing well
I love how the students respected Linné. It was very rough at times, with students wrecking havoc in town streets and various local establishment not being part of the University. When Linné happened to have his wagon into the mid of a fierce street brawl, the students let him be completely untouched, letting him pass straight through the brawl. He was not only admired, but liked. When battling out with academics attacking him and his work, students cheered for him and booed on the attacker. It seems to me he really liked to share his knowledge to all. He seemed to enjoy exchanging knowledge, share, learn and teach.
As a retired biology teacher, I appreciate the depth of information you have provided above Linnaeus. His background and help by others in the area of taxonomy is nearly non existent in textbooks.
At least swedes know him. He was on our monney after all.
Studying insects is how I learned of Linnaeus. You see his name next to soooo many species. It’s impressive.
My name is also liniyash
Carl von Linné might have been too big for his breeches, but as a Swede, I can't deny feeling a little bit proud of his accomplishments and prevailing legacy in taxonomy.
I think his accomplishments more than warrant his ego. As a birder and plant enthusiast, he's a hero of mine.
I can not thank you enough, this has helped me help my daughter with her homework! A fantastic presentation style with great attention to detail. I've learnt more history in a few days watching these and linked channels than I did with years of history in school. Thanks again.
Eum, there's still a Lappland here in sweden, it's our biggest province in the whole country and it has no competition for that title, it's literally almost a quarter of our whole country.. I mean it has a population density of 0.83/km2 but... that's irrelevant
Yes. I don't think they said it wasn't in Sweden, they just said that it was not the one found in Finland today.
That was worth learning. Thank you. Honest. Thank you.
Carl Von Linné! A hero!
A hero to botanist/A botanist hero
@@forcedtohaveahandle?
John bartram too
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Early years
3:45 - Chapter 2 - A trip to lapland
8:05 - Chapter 3 - The hydra & the bannana
12:00 - Mid roll ads
13:25 - Chapter 4 - The systema naturae
18:25 - Chapter 5 - Back to sweden
Great video! I have a PhD in Plant Taxonomy so I knew some of the things you talked about, particularly the parts related to his scientific work. But I didn't know a lot about the details of his life. So I really appreciate that. I have a few little nitpicks. Nothing that would seriously hurt the video, but maybe you'd find informative. You are correct that a banana produces a berry, but you weren't wrong to say a banana fruit. A berry is a kind of fruit, much in the way a sedan is a type of car not something different from a car. Second, zoologists are allowed to use the same name for a genus in species (i.e. Bison Bison) but botanists are not (you can't name a rose Rosa Rosa for example). In fact some early plant names have been changed because of this. Finally, a little mention of Species Plantarum would have been nice. It marks the official start date for plant names. Nothing he nor anyone else named in a book prior to the Species Plantarum publication date of May 1, 1753 counts as an official scientific name (unless it got reused there or after). The start date for animals is January 1, 1758 in Systema Naturae's 10th edition, making Species Plantarum the very first valid use of the binomial system (for taxonomic purposes) for any biological organism.
I see Carl Linneaus like Darwin.
Both were revolutionary especially for their times.
Both were very bright and paved the way to modern understanding
Both were very wrong in many of their theories and modern science improved on their scientific theories and principles.
For instance we now use cladistics instead of the linnean system due to the fact linneaus like everyone else had no idea dna existed. Cladistics is absed on dna and species based ancestry.
And we know now that Darwin was often correct in how things worked while getting the hypothesis wrong. For instance believing whales came from bears. He was right whales were related to land species but he was totally wrong about what the ancestor was. Darwin wasn't perfect, linneaus wasn't perfect but without them we wouldn't know as much as we know about biology and ancestry today.
Cladistics isn't entirely based on DNA. For instance we know that whales are necessarily derived from tetrapods, birds are reptiles, and all tetrapods are technically lobe-finned fish based on anatomy. However DNA can be used to corroborate anatomy and is indeed much more straightforward in most cases. Don't mistake my pedantics for criticism. I mostly interact with facebook creationists to get screencaps of them saying ridiculous things so it's refreshing to encounter someone not divorced from reality.
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@@patldennis thats kinda what I was trying to say i meant DNA was moreless used to get down to the nitty gritty on organization. The main idea is that you cant grow out of what your ancestors were. Like if cats evolved in a way that made them look like fish they wouldn't be a new modern fish they would be a sub category of some fishy ass kitties. Even though mammals came from mamal like reptiles and so on further back. (That wouldnt happen but if it did they can't grow out of their ancestry. )
Thanks man for helping me with that btw. I love biology. I'm rusty when it comes to clades but i can underunderstand it way better than taxonomy because it fits so much better together.
@@SheevPalpatine66420 the concept you are describing is Ernst Mayer's Law of Monophyly. Aron Ra on youtube has a ton of stuff on this topic. Nice chat!
@@patldennis love Aron
His teacher took him home and taught him anatomy? Today that teacher would be arrested
my teacher took me home to teach sex ed once
@@thinginground5179 hold up-
@@thinginground5179 i hope thats a joke 💀
@@venus-or9dt yus
The binomial name has the Genus with capital letter, and the species goes in small letter. E,g. Homo sapiens, and not Homo Sapiens.
I started watching this today, April 2nd, when I saw that this post had been uploaded "1 day ago"
I wasn't familiar with the name so I excitedly settled in for what was sure to be another excellently crafted April Fools episodes.
Now I just know a lot about Carl Linnaeus. Happy for the knowledge, sad for tradition.
Thank you for sharing so many great history videos with the community, The kids and I love being able to soak up all the history during this difficult time! Keep up the great work!!!
from now on, i'm going to call them banana berries.
Keep well team and please carry on doing what you do best. We love your work xx
As a "retired" docent for a large Metropolitan zoo in the United States I thank you for this treatment of such a great man.
I got interested in taxonomy when I was reading about pot as a young teen. The botanical books called it cannabis Sative (of L). I wanted to know what the hell 'of L' was. This was before the Intenet, so it was a book hunt. And then I fell down the rabbit hole of book collecting.
I really liked this episode! I don't think biographies of viscous, blood thirsty tyrants and criminals are the only lives you can enjoy learning about.
Wonderful video! I feel connected to Linneaus because I was an exchange student in Småland many years ago, and have visited Lund University many times. Thanks for acknowledging such a great man!
In the binomial system, the generic name only goes with a capital letter, the specific name goes in small letter. For example :Homo sapiens is correct, Homo Sapiens is incorrect.
My junior high school biology in 30 minutes or less
14:54-14:56
Kingdom, division, class, ordo, family, genus, species
The Binomial Sytem of Nomenclature and Charles Darwin's Origin of Species are the definitive works for Field Biologists, Botanists and Zoologists.
Born and grown up in Uppsala :)
Soil rich in clay would suggest the areas are more capable of water logging ie are more likely to have standing water.
Do one on Erich Mielke head of the stasi in East germany.
Thank you for this short but interesting biography of this most known biologist. I loved your presentation.
Such an interesting video as always. I enjoy the simple format that doesn't require me to watch the video as such - I can just listen and potter about my humble abode. Side note - could you do a video on another eminent Swedish scientist - Celsius?
So Linnaeus thought that Mother Eve had gone for the Banana - He seems, as a sideline, to have prefigured Freud's work on the human psyche.
Lapland is a cross region, like the alps. "Lapland" is also a province in Finland.
Another one of the great "organizers" who made life for the rest of us that much easier.
Fun fact: Carl Linnaeus used to be on the Swedish 100 kronor bill, until a redesign in 2016 when he was replaced by Greta Garbo.
I'm a plant importer from Italy to the UK and on a recent trip to Pistoia in Tuscany we visited the Linnaeus statue .
Truly amazing sir
These keep me going every day when I wake up early with my son.
My favorite named genus Portlandia. They are named after Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. She was a bluestocking, a natural history collector and the richest woman in Britain. She also was something of a night owl. Portlandia grandiflora L. blooms after sunset.
Favorite full name: Theobroma Cacao: Food-of-the-Gods Chocolate. It is clear that Linnaeus was chocophilic.
Man, I hope they're giving you some serious extra coin for putting those adverts in the middle of the video, because it absolutely slaughters the flow of your videos.
@@d4mdcykey I didn't mean a youtube ad. I meant Simon's promotion of Brilliant in the middle of the video. Man, when you try to make fun of someone and just end up making yourself look silly. Rough moment, buddy.
13:29 I misread that as Jan Frederik Coronavirus. That's one hell of a slip.
*13:29 🤦🏽♂️
@@forcedtohaveahandle Thank you kindly. I'll amend it.
Carl Linneasus also introduced what we know today as race. And not only that, he also classified Homo sapiens into 4 groups and gave all for groups characteristics based off those groups so not to deny his greatness in taxonomy but he also played a major role in how we view people today
Thank you it helped me with my homework
10:20 I had to chuckle! "To me, Tu Youyou"
Love the video could you maybe do a video on General Antonia luna?
You should do a video on St. Padre Pio. He had a really interesting story, but there aren't any high-quality videos on him.
Great video! I live less than 10 kilometres from his birthplace and I didn’t even know half of this stuff.
Fun facts: Anders Celcius who perfected the Centigrade Temperature scale (Which later was named Celcius in his honor) is from Uppsala, and was also a professor at Uppsala University. It was also Celcius who proposed the name "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences" for Linnaeus. Saturn, as a part of the largest permanent scale model of the Solar System, is just outside Anders Celcius old observatory in the city centre of Uppsala.
Can you do one one on Spanish general El Cid please ?
I do so enjoy your biographics. Thank you for doing them.
It is insane that only about 2 minutes from the end we're reminded that this guy is only in his mid 30's when he settled into a groove and just continued the work that he'd started years before
Well done Radu! Your writing made this an interesting and educative video, not just a string of random facts with a sensationalistic spin.
Thank you.
“If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.”
Carl Linnaeus
I say what is in a name as long as you have knowledge of that subject !
Lovely subject. Well done for all your works. However, the genus is capitalised and the species name is always written in lower case.
Very nice video
That was a very interesting video of a man I've never heard of before. What an impressive resume for just one life! Very enjoyable.
So glad to see this biography, I remember him from biology class years ago.
Best part was naming the small plant penor for a rival
Please consider doing a biograph on *Yukio Mishima!* Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, film director, nationalist.
I've been greatly enjoying binge watching this and your other channel, Geographics. Thank you for both channels. The work y'all do is very interesting, well researched, these scripts are well written, and I enjoy your presentation style and the humor interjected into the scripts.
I personally would like a few more images of what you're talking about, á la documentary style, and for the sponsor spiel to be at the front of the video.
I'm significantly more likely to sit through a sponsorship if it's at the beginning before I've dived into the video. When you do it in the middle, even though your segue ways are awesome, I just want to continue learning about what you're presenting. Leading me to skip your sponsorships. I cannot be the only one who feels this way. Just a suggestion that might help with people viewing, and possibly engaging, with your sponsors.
He looks like brother of micheal from Vsauce
He was a great American hero
He was Swedish.
@@deteon1418 nevertheless
-_-
A video on "the father of Taxonomy" many sound dull but this one's anything but, there's so much interesting stuff in here. Love the digression on bananas!
Very useful, thanks!
After the Coronavirus has passed, you should do your biography on how you've survived the pandemic
Fun fact: There's a University named after him, the Linnaeus University.
The "Biggest playground in Europe" is named after him and is next to the Hartekamp mansion. (Linnaeushof)
Linnaeus described so many species in 1758, its amazing how many.
Could you do Enver Hoxha?
Finaly a good video about a guy who lived 20km from where I grew up
Finally some swedes represented!
Thank you
Don't forget to make a video for Ioannis Kapodistrias! It is very interesting!
So tired of being inside that I thought this was about a guy that made taxes make sense. Guess he doesn’t exist... think I’m going crazy a little.
Taxation is probably too old to classify on who came up with it, as it is technically a Medieval method that has lasted to today, albeit the rules of taxations have changed immensely.
You sure make this Carl lineaus dude sound real peachy.
this episode reminds me of nerly everything i ever here in star trek, exactly star trek tng!! i know ur a trekkie so made this video even better!! ty, to u and ur team!! stay safe!!
I recommend Every Living Thing by Rob Dunn if you are interested in the history of this subject.
Does philosophia botanica not have any more relevance
Thanks
I found it really hard to watch this video because Simon did not cut his mustache properly. Other than that, another great video. Thanks Simon!
PLEASE do one on IP MAN, Bruce Lee’s bad ass master :)
Would love to see a video about Raoul Wallenberg. A man who saved around a hundred thousand jewish people during ww2.
I really liked this one, interesting. I learned something I liked.
Dope! Thank you sir Carl Linnaeus for everything we have today!
Please do a video on Ernst Jünger
"Nothing is sure except death and tax" has been brought to animal kingdom by this man
Carl Linneaus😳😳
SUS😳
Always interesting
Give us Bach!
You sure make this Carl linneaus dude sound real peachy.
Could you do a video about Gordon Stewart Northcott?!?!
Could you do a video on Osceola?
Well. Found the catalyst for why I had to suffer through that damn taxonomy class in high school...
Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
Why was the triangle cartoon my favourite part of this whole video... 🤨 lol
Could you do a Biography on Alexander von Humboldt
*Last time I was this early, Corona was still a shitty beer...*
You should do a biographics on Roy Chapman Andrews
Nice Swedish pronounciations 👌😂
Ngl my language is really weird
Dear Biographics,
I've decided that I have to boycott Biographics until you do one on Alfred North Whitehead. He's that important.
I doubt my one man boycott will work, but I have to do it on principle, so hurry up and do one on ANW so I can watch Biographics again! I love this channel!
should do one on michael jackson. I'd say its too controversial but there has been more controversial people on this channel and i'd like to see a mostly comprohensive story of his life and fall.
rumour has it that he had a pet jackalope.
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