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  1. Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin ( Latin: Casparus Bauhinus; 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. He was a disciple of the famous Italian physician Girolamo ...

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  2. Gaspard Bauhin was a Swiss physician, anatomist, and botanist who introduced a scientific binomial system of classification to both anatomy and botany. A student of the Italian anatomist Fabricius ab Aquapendente at the University of Padua, Italy (1577–78), he spent most of his career at the

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  3. Jan 17, 2021 · Gaspard Bauhin (1550 – 1624) On January 17, 1560, Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin was born. He is best known for his contributions to the field of botany, and especially for his classification of plants. He was a disciple of the famous Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale and he also worked on human anatomical nomenclature.

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  5. Jun 11, 2018 · Bauhin, Gaspard. Bauhin, Gaspard (1550–1624) A French anatomist and herbalist, who, in 1582, was appointed professor of Greek, and in 1588 of anatomy and botany at Basle; eventually he became rector of the university and dean of his faculty. He wrote Pinax theatri botanici (1623), which is a concordance to earlier nomenclature (still used as ...

  6. Gaspard Bauhin. 1560-1624. Danish physiologist and botanist who described more than 6,000 medicinal plants. Encouraging both individual and collaborative efforts, he convinced the universities to work together to share discoveries in their botanical gardens. He wrote a large book called Pinax theatri botani, published in 1627.

  7. In Gaspard Bauhin. In his Pinax theatri botanica (1623; “Illustrated Exposition of Plants”), the most celebrated of the early attempts to name and catalog all known kinds of plants, he listed and described briefly about 6,000 species, while introducing the practice of naming plants by their genus and species (binomial…

  8. Oct 4, 2019 · Gaspard and Johann Bauhin An early form of the naming system was developed by the brothers Gaspard and Johann Bauhin, Swedish botanists who lived in from the mid-1500’s to the early 1600’s. In 1596, Gaspard published his book Pinax theatric botanici (“Illustrated Exposition of Plants”) that described and classified thousands of plants.

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