Carl Linnaeus end of his life he timidly advanced the hypothesis that all the species of one genus constituted at the creation one species; and from the last edition of his "Systema Naturæ" he quietly left out the strongly orthodox statement of the fixity of each species, which he had insisted upon in his earlier works. ... warnings came speedily both from the Catholic and Protestant sides. The mathematical PageRank algorithm, applied to 24 multilingual Wikipedia editions in 2014, published in "PLOS ONE" in 2015, placed Carl Linnaeus at the top historical figure, above Jesus, Aristotle, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler (in that
Melaleuca leucadendra leucadendra" was first formally described in 1762 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum as "Myrtus leucadendra". Linnaeus used a description of the species written by Georg Eberhard Rumphius in 1741, before the modern system of classification was devised by Linnaeus. Rumphius had described a plant growing in what is now Indonesia. Later, Linnaeus realised that this species had little in common with other species in the genus "Myrtus" and described the genus "Melaleuca" to accommodate this species. Thus, "Melaleuca leucadendra" became the first melaleuca to be formally described. The description was published in 1767 in "Mantissa plantarum". It follows that