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Gaspard Bauhin

Gaspard Bauhin, 1560-1624
Jean Bauhin, 1541-1613
Swiss-French botanists[?]. Gaspard Bauhin introduced binomial nomenclature into taxonomy, which was taken up by Linnaeus. His work Pinax theatri botanici is pre-starting point in nomenclature codes[?]. Also working on human anatomical nomenclature.

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