“If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.”

—  Carl Linnaeus , book Philosophia Botanica

Philosophia Botanica (1751), aphorism 210. Trans. Frans A. Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans: The Spreading of their Ideas in Systematic Botany, 1735-1789 (1971), 80.

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Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist 1707–1778

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