Children’s book author Karen Magnuson Beil will discuss her new book, What Linnaeus Saw, with fellow author Steve Sheinkin on Friday, January 10 at 6 pm.

The globetrotting naturalists of the eighteenth century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology.