Linnaeus – a tidiness freak
I don’t know if Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus had obsessive-compusive disorder but he certainly knew how to keep things well-organised and super tidy. Today in 1753 he published Species Plantarum which marked the birth of plant taxonomy, a boring name for a brilliant way of organising plantlife, always using two Latin names (for the genus and the species, like Homo Sapiens). Brainboxes and scientists refer to this as binomial nomenclature And now you’ve read this, you can too!
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