Introduction

Authors

• Karl Wikman

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67044

Abstract

Linnæus' main interest was the study of the generation forms of living nature. The knowledge of these organic processes was, during Linnean times, still obscured by the bewildering views of earlier centuries. From pre-Hippocratic ages the analogies between animal and plant and between egg and germ had been primary findings of biology.