A Passion for Systems: Linneaus and the Dream of Order in Nature
Helene Schmitz and Nils Uddenberg
Natur & Kultur
English
Texts by Nils Uddenberg and Pia Östensson
Hardcover
256 pages
285 x 230 mm
2007
ISBN 9789127115224
Linnaeus introduced his pioneering sexual systems for plants for the first time in 1735. His contemporaries were shocked by Linnaeus’ frank comparisons with the sexual reproduction system of human beings but his useful scheme rather quickly took the world by storm. Helene Schmitz’ beautiful and unique photographs depict the sexual system organised in the 24 original categories. Nils Uddenberg’s inspiring words enable us to follow Linnaeus from his youth growing up in Stenbrohult, a town in the region of Småland, to esteemed professor in Uppsala of worldwide repute. Pia Östensson, a biologist working at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, is scientific consultant and captions author.
“A Passion for Systems” was the Linnaeus Tercentenary’s official anniversary book and was published in Swedish, English and Japanese.
About the Artist
Helene Schmitz’s photography explores humankind’s complicated relation to nature, time and the transience of being. In her earlier photographic works she has been interested in natural philosophers of the eighteenth century. Her later works can be regarded as meditations on how the discourse of the Enlightenment is inscribed within contemporary landscapes.
(source http://www.heleneschmitz.se/bio)
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Nils Uddenberg is university lecturer in Medical Psychology and a researcher of Lifeview Studies. He was made a professor in 2000. In 2003 he won the August Prize for his book Idéer om livet (Ideas About Life). In 2007, with the photographer Helene Schmitz, he published the official commemorative book of the Linneus year, System och passion (System and Passion).
(source https://us.macmillan.com/author/nilsuddenberg)
About the Publisher:
The publishing house Natur & Kultur was founded in 1922 by Johan Hansson (the son of a smallholder) and his wife Jenny Bergqvist Hansson. Johan and Jenny wanted to build a publishing house governed by ideas, with part of the published works focusing on education in areas of psychology, health and natural science.
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