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
Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus in Linnaeus' honor. The name Linnaeus or Linné has been given as a first or middle name, usually for boys, to several notable people including: The given name Linnea or Linnéa is highly popular for girls born in Sweden and Norway. Some notable women with the name: Linneus, Maine, and Linneus, Missouri were named in his honor. Kingston upon Hull has a street, originally known as Botanic Lane, which was renamed to Linnaeus Street by 1823. The Australian National University campus in Canberra has a road named Linnaeus Way, which runs past several biology buildings. Gustavus Adolphus College began its