Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1560)
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.
1624Dec, 5
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