Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss botanist
Died when: 64 years 323 days (778 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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 Mercuriale and he also worked on human anatomical nomenclature.Linnaeus honored the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and Jean in the genus name Bauhinia.
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