Carl Linnaeus: pictures and propaganda.
How do scientists become famous? Carl Linnaeus was an expert at self-promotion who used portraits to gain patronage and consolidate his reputation. His sexualized classification system was hugely controversial, yet his successors celebrated him as a great hero of botany.
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Clare College, Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK. pf10006@hermes.cam.ac.uk
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