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    Olof Rudbeck the Younger or Olaus Rudbeckius d.y. (15 March 1660 – 23 March 1740) was a Swedish explorer, scientist, botanist, ornithologist and rector...
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    Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, and occasionally with the surname Latinized as Olaus Rudbeckius)...
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    Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), Swedish scientist and writer, professor of medicine at Uppsala University, son of Bishop Johannes Rudbeck at Västerås Olof Rudbeck...
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    botanist at Uppsala University, Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660–1740), as well as Rudbeck's late father Olof Rudbeck the Elder (1630–1702), a distinguished...
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    Rudbeck (1630–1702), who was a noted scientist of the 17th century. His grandson Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660–1740) was a scientist, botanist and ornithologist...
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    hence the name. The first member was Petrus Olai Nobelius (1655–1707) who married Wendela Rudbeck (1668–1710), sister of Olof Rudbeck the Younger, daughter...
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  • Scottish naturalist and encyclopedist (died 1795) March 23 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish naturalist (born 1660). Smiles, Samuel (1879). Industrial...
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    Carl Linnaeus (category Knights of the Order of the Polar Star)
    recommendation on the two professors who taught at the medical faculty at Uppsala: Olof Rudbeck the Younger and Lars Roberg. Although Rudbeck and Roberg had...
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  • "The Elder" and "the Younger" are epithets generally used to distinguish between two individuals, often close relatives. In some instances, one of the...
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  • Ulster Scots-born collector and physician (died 1753) March 15 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish naturalist (died 1740) May 27 (bapt.) – Francis Hauksbee...
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    1740 (category Leap years in the Gregorian calendar)
    February 29 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667) March 23 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (b. 1660) April 28 – Bajirao I...
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    1660 (category Leap years in the Gregorian calendar)
    mother-in-law of King Stanislaus I of Poland (d. 1701) March 15 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (d. 1740) March 24 – Filippo Antonio...
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    Charles De Geer (category Knights of the Order of the Polar Star)
    books on natural sciences from Olof Rudbeck the Younger, whom he had come to know in Uppsala, and several more when Rudbeck's library was sold at an auction...
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    Abraham Bäck (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    was in a sorry state during the latter part of the tenure of Olof Rudbeck the Younger and Lars Roberg. He also opined that the presence of Nils Rosén von...
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    February 29 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667) March 23 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (b. 1660) April 28 – Bajirao I...
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    mother-in-law of King Stanislaus I of Poland (d. 1701) March 15 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (d. 1740) March 24 – Filippo Antonio...
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  • Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for...
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    1660 in Sweden (category Years of the 17th century in Sweden)
    Queen Christina visits Sweden and unsuccessfully claims the throne. 5 March - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, explorer, scientist (died 1740) Simon Affleck, tax...
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    Linnaeus was awarded a grant from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala for his journey. Olof Rudbeck the Younger, one of Linnaeus' former professors...
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    artist (painter), amateur actor, and poet (died 1663) 23 March - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, explorer, scientist (died 1660) – Christina Johansdotter, murderer...
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    similar discovery of the human lymphatic system was published by Olof Rudbeck in 1653, although Rudbeck had presented his findings at the court of Queen Christina...
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    Anna Maria Thelott (category People from the Swedish Empire)
    and active as the assistants in his studio as children. They were all assigned to assist him when he was commissioned by Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702) to...
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    holy or magical. The study of runes was continued by Olof Rudbeck the Elder (1630–1702) and presented in his collection Atlantica. The physicist Anders...
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    According to this the Atlantis disappeared in 8016 BC when the Ice-Age ended in Finland and the ice melted away. In 1679 Olaus Rudbeck wrote Atlantis (Atlantica)...
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    Runes (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    viewed runes as holy or magical in a kabbalistic sense. The study of runes was continued by Olof Rudbeck Sr (1630–1702) and presented in his collection Atlantica...
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    Nils Rosén von Rosenstein (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    at the Uppsala University, replacing Petrus Martin who had recently died. Rosén had already worked as an assistant to professor Olof Rudbeck at the time...
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    (the sixth largest lake in Sweden). The three young men went farther north than any botanist since Olof Rudbeck the Younger's 1695 expedition. On the way...
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    Fabian Reinhold von Fersen and Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen. Jägerskiöld, Olof (1956). "Fredrik Axel Fersen, von". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish)...
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    Harmony Books, New York, 1970. (Based on works of Olof Rudbeck 1630–1702.) Powell, B. The Voyage of the Argo. In Classical Myth. Upper Saddle River, NJ...
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  • was highly regarded, and Biörner won the favour of another disciple of Rudbeck's, Johan Peringskiöld, then the Chief Inspector of ancient monuments and...
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