{"id":9397,"date":"2017-05-01T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2017-05-01T10:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:03:17","slug":"linnaeus-a-tidiness-freak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=9397","title":{"rendered":"Linnaeus – a tidiness freak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a><\/a> And now you’ve read this, you can too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n