Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin ( ; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624 ) , was a Swiss botanist whose "Pinax theatri botanici" ( 1623 ) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus . 
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