Editing Olaus Rudbeck (section)

==Legacy==
Rudbeck was active in many scientific areas, including botany and [[astronomy]], and left many traces still visible in the city of Uppsala today.

In 1655, he established the first botanical garden in Sweden at Uppsala,<ref name=":0">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ElwhBKXJQ |title=Rudbeckian Remains (Wood Blocks and Botany) |date=2024-03-13 |last=Gaskell |first=Roger |publisher=Linnean Society |access-date=2024-12-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref> called Rudbeck's Garden, but which was renamed a hundred years later for his son's student, the botanist [[Carl Linnaeus]]. Rudbeck also aimed to produce a projected 12-volume encyclopedia of all known plants of the world called ''Campi elysii.<ref name=":0" />'' Life-sized woodcut illustrations of many of the species were included in the two volumes that were published, and the woodblocks for these were made by Rudbeck as well as his son Olof, his two daughters, ohanna Christina and Wendela, and other colleagues.<ref name=":0" /> It is thought that about 3,200 woodblocks were cut for the series, and those remaining today (about 140 from volume 1) are housed at the [[Linnean Society of London]].<ref name=":0" /> 

The plant genus ''[[Rudbeckia]]'' was named by Linnaeus in honor of both Rudbeck and his son.<ref name=":0" />

During the course of a fire that destroyed most of Uppsala in 1702, a large portion of Rudbeck's writings, woodblocks and copies of the first two volumes of ''Campi elysii'' was lost.<ref name=":0" /> Rudbeck himself directed the people of the city, shouting orders from a roof while his house burned down. He died the same year, shortly after the fire, and was buried in [[Uppsala Cathedral]] at the [[transept]].

The [[Nobel family]], including [[Ludvig Nobel]], the founder of [[Branobel]], and [[Alfred Nobel]], the founder of the [[Nobel Prize]]s, was a descendant of Rudbeck through his daughter Wendela, who married one of her father's former students, Peter Olai Nobelius.