Byline: Luca Leon Canonico Johnson
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Beyond What the Eyes Can See: Sensory Experience and Botanical Knowledge in Uppsala’s Linneanum Orangery and Tropical Greenhouse
It is a cold, grey November day in Uppsala, Sweden. I am walking underneath the enormous columns of the Linneanum (Fig. 1), the stately building commissioned with funds donated to the University by King Gustav III in 1787. It is the centerpiece of Uppsala University’s Botanical Garden (Botaniska trädgården), established in the same year by…