It is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus (1707 - 1778).
He introduced the Linnaean taxonomy concerned with classification of plants and animals.
Taxonomy:
Taxonomy is the branch of science that deals with the study of classifying organisms.
Classical taxonomy deals with the classification of species in which species is considered as basic unit.
In this, an organism is classified into domains, kingdoms, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. In this, the organism is classified using both morphology and phylogeny