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News archive 2007

May

Carl Linnaeus and the mineral kingdom

2007-05-10
Carl Linnaeus’ contribution to geology merits greater attention. Nowadays, it is generally his achievements in botany and zoology that attract the limelight, but for Linnaeus himself, minerals, rocks, ores, fossils and superficial deposits were by no means unimportant.
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