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Pinax Theatri Botanici by Swiss physician, anatomist, and botanist Gaspard Bauhin, 63, introduces a scientific binomial system of classifaction. A compilation that pulls together uncoordinated plant names and descriptions of some 6,000 species mentioned by Theophrastus and Dioscorides, plus later herbals and plant records, it represents the first effort to summarize the confusing names (see Linnaeus, 1737).
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