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View of Hartekamp from the Herenweg, the road from Haarlem to Leiden that leads along 17th and 18th century summer homes.
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View of Hartekamp from the 'Leidse trekvaart' or Leiden-Haarlem canal.
Hartekamp, Heemstede summer home of George Clifford on the Bennebroek border, who hired Linnaeus in 1737 to write his 'Hortus Cliffortianus', a detailed description of the gardens of Hartecamp. The house was expanded with wings on either side after it left the Clifford family. The Clifford banking dynasty went bankrupt in 1788. The original editions of the Hortus Cliffortianus and other works of Linnaeus that were written there 'Musea Cliffortiana', 'florens Hartekampi', and 'prope Harlemum' were sold at auction to generate funds for the Clifford estate.

At the time of Linnaeus' inventory, the garden had 1251 living plant species in the greenhouses, gardens and woods. A recent inventory in 2006 revealed 250 living species today that are all wild remains of the anciant garden.

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  • Linnaeus in de tuin van Clifford, publication of the Heemstede Historical Society 2007
Heemstede

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Country Netherlands
Province North Holland
Area (2006)
 - Municipality 9.64 km  (0 sq mi)
 - Land 9.
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George Clifford III (1685 - 1760) was a wealty Dutch bankier and director for the Dutch East India Company. He is known for his keen interest in plants and gardens. His estate Hartekamp had a rich variety of plants and he engaged the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné to write
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Bennebroek

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Country Netherlands
Province North Holland
Area (2006)
 - Municipality 1.79 km  (0 sq mi)
 - Land 1.
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Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné)

Carl von Linné, Alexander Roslin, 1775. Currently owned by and hanging at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Hortus cliffortianus was a masterpiece of early botanical literature published in 1738.

The work was a collaboration between Carl Linnaeus and Georg Dionysius Ehret, financed by George Clifford in 1735-1736.
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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