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
Carl Linnaeus the Younger head of Practical Medicine at Uppsala. His promotion to professor—without taking exams or defending a thesis—caused resentment among his colleagues. Linnaeus' work was modest in comparison to that of his father. His best-known work is the "Supplementum Plantarum systematis vegetabilium" of 1781, which contains botanical descriptions by the elder Linnaeus and his colleagues, edited and with additions by the son. He took a two-year trip to England, France, The Netherlands and Denmark between 1781-1783. In London he had laid the ground for sickness (jaundice), and shortly after his return, he suffered the fever and stroke from which he died at