biography
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Bauhin, Caspar or Gaspard
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1560–1624)
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| biography:
| Botanist and physician, born in Basel, N Switzerland. He was professor of anatomy and botany at Basel, and compiled an influential medical textbook, Theatrum anatomicum (1605, trans Microcosmographia, A Description of the Body of Man). He was also the author of Pinax theatri botanici (1623, Illustrated Exposition of Plants), which introduced a system of binomial nomenclature by genus and species. It was much used by Linnaeus and still important as a compendium of all plants known in the early 17th-c. |
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