Who is Carl Linnaeus from Ship Fever and what is their importance?

Carl Linnaeus was the Swedish botanist and taxonomist, who founded the modern discipline of binomial nomenclature. Linnaeus is known as the father of taxonomy, and he is widely recognized for other important contributions to the sciences of biology and ecology. He was educated at Uppsala University, where he later taught botany. During the mid 1700s, Linnaeus traveled widely through Northern Europe, where he carefully collected animals and plants, which he categorized with his taxonomic system. Today, Linnaeus is recognized as a major contributor to not only biology but natural philosophy as well.