1707

Events in 1707 3

• 1637 – 1707 Dietrich Buxtehude North German Baroque organist Danish-German composer whose organ works greatly influenced J.S. Bach. The young Bach famously walked 400km to hear him perform.
• 1707 – 1783 Leonhard Euler Mathematical Genius One of the greatest mathematicians in history, born in Basel; his work defined modern calculus and graph theory.
• 1707 – 1778 Carl Linnaeus Father of Modern Taxonomy Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who created the binomial system of naming organisms still used across the biological sciences today. Trained in medicine at Lund and Uppsala, he spent his early career collecting and classifying plants and animals across Scandinavia and the Netherlands before returning to a long professorship at Uppsala University. His landmark works, including Systema Naturae and Species Plantarum, imposed a rigorous, hierarchical order on the natural world that transformed botany and zoology into systematic sciences. Ennobled as Carl von Linné in 1761, he trained dozens of students, the so-called "Linnaean Apostles," who carried his methods to every continent.