Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus end of his life in 1778, Carl Linnaeus had become one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe, the first civilian in Sweden to be dubbed a knight of the Order of the Polar Star (1753) and ennobled as Carl von Linné (1761). The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote during Linnaeus' lifetime: "I know no greater man on earth." The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe would later write: "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly." Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: "Linnaeus was in reality
Structure (category theory) operations will be needed. "Presentation of a category" (analogously to presentation of a group) can in fact be approached in a number of ways, the "category" structure not being (quite) an algebraic structure in its own right. The term "transport of structure" is the 'French' way of expressing "covariance" or "equivariance" as a constraint: transfer structure by a surjection and then (if there is an existing structure) compare. Since any group is a one-object category, a special case of the question about "what the morphisms preserve" is this: how to consider any group G as a symmetry group? That is